leisure-class
Example Sentences
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Enita, one of the leisure-class Sainted, provides ostensibly useful services to the working class in the last human city of Bulwark—she farms new limbs and organs for those who can’t afford medical care.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025
She was a leisure-class beauty who devoted her days to philanthropy and culture.
From Washington Post • Dec. 15, 2015
Tossing out the well-made play with a cast-iron plot, he substituted a fluid, unemphatic, uneventful picture of life�the life of a fiberless leisure-class Russian society.
From Time Magazine Archive
Much of A Month is leisure-class social comedy, in which sheer ennui acts as a stimulant and the yawn is father to the kiss.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was at this point that she met Cynthelia Isgrig Knefler, a leisure-class young woman, who had been gripped by a sense of the unevenness of the human struggle.
From How To Write Special Feature Articles A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents and Free-Lance Writers Who Desire to Contribute to Popular Magazines and Magazine Sections of Newspapers by Bleyer, Willard Grosvenor
