leisured

Example Sentences

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Studies over the years have indicated that the rich, unlike the leisured gentry of old, tend to work longer hours and spend less time socializing.

From New York Times

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

I found it quite interesting: you’ve got the leisured classes who have become ineffectual and the downtrodden working classes.

From The Guardian

When not idling in drawing rooms, members of the leisured class took long walks and stared at trees.

From New York Times

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