leisured

Example Sentences

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Instead Jaeger lays bear the spiritual ennui of a leisured civilization without real purpose.

From Washington Post • Mar. 24, 2021

For their part, the leisured gents asserted their superiority by making a public show of their leisure or, as Veblen put it, their “conspicuous abstention from labour.”

From Salon • Apr. 19, 2019

An idyllic, leisured summer is in prospect, with a little cataloguing and venturing out with Perlman to view those classical statues that have been recovered from the lake.

From The Guardian • Dec. 22, 2017

The airbrushed T-shirt, long consigned to the twin bastions of leisured Americana — malls and West Coast boardwalks — was “back.”

From New York Times • Nov. 14, 2017

Many were students both ambitious for academic success and accustomed to leisured life in the sun.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez