leisure-class
Example Sentences
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Vincent’s day job as a senior reporter for the Verge plants him firmly in the present, and he brings the reader up to the current craze of the leisure class: the “quantified self” movement.
From Washington Post • Nov. 30, 2022
Pacifico’s follow-up, “Class,” took on the hipster millennials of Italy’s leisure class, their bank accounts padded by regular cash transfers from their parents, their self-regard padded by the status symbols those transfers afford.
From New York Times • Dec. 7, 2021
Gillespie said the rule is "kind of a holdover from the leisure class."
From Fox News • Sep. 6, 2021
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
