leisure-class
Example Sentences
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The expanding leisure class of the late 19th century was, as Fischer writes, “driven to consume, eager for diversion and entertainment.”
From Washington Post • Apr. 27, 2022
Gillespie said the rule is "kind of a holdover from the leisure class."
From Fox News • Sep. 6, 2021
“They used to be this glaring symbol that you were a lady of the leisure class, right?” said Stellene Volandes, the editor in chief of Town & Country..
From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2020
New technology, he understood, sped up industrialization, which in turn attracted those men of the leisure class, always on the lookout for the next thing of value to seize and make their own.
From Salon • Apr. 19, 2019
A jungle yields no abundance to feed the multitudes, and supports no leisure class.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
