leisured class
Example Sentences
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"We're in the business of totally converting the proletariat to the leisured class," Cornfeld boasted.
From Time Magazine Archive
A great city also must have within its boundaries a large leisured class to pay for the culture and pleasure that are the outward signs of its preeminence.
From Time Magazine Archive
For the first time in his life Tony Luton discovered that agents and managers were a leisured class, and that office boys had manners.
From When William Came by Saki
As in Egypt, civilization made progress when wealth was accumulated in sufficient abundance to permit of a leisured class devoting time to study and research.
From Myths of Babylonia and Assyria by Mackenzie, Donald Alexander
The great principle of conspicuous ritualistic waste had been illustrated in a manner to satisfy the most exacting standard of the leisured class; and incidentally a subject of talk was provided.
From The Roll-Call by Bennett, Arnold
