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

“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

For the most part, today's plutocrats are not a leisured, landed gentry of inherited wealth.

From BBC • Feb. 2, 2011

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

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez