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

They didn’t want to overthrow the leisure class.

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