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leisured

[lee-zherd, lezh-erd] / ˈli ʒərd, ˈlɛʒ ərd /


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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

The Fadimans led the sort of leisured, cushioned existence one reads about in novels by Louis Auchincloss and Evelyn Waugh.

From Washington Post Nov. 1, 2017

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

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez




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