leisured

Example Sentences

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“We did this pause and were waking at nine in the morning to take leisured walks.”

From New York Times • Oct. 30, 2020

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

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

Machiavelli wanted ruthlessness to be used for political ends - achieving a self-governing republic - whereas Ripley is ruthless in order to achieve purely personal ends - an affluent, leisured life in beautiful surroundings.

From BBC • May 23, 2013

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

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez