moneyed

Example Sentences

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But they weren’t moneyed enough to afford an apartment of their own, so they lived for long stretches with her parents.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026

Mr. Wright keeps tossing in would-be funny denunciations of the moneyed elites that are about as spicy as a bowl of sour cream.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 13, 2025

“Highest 2 Lowest” mimics the high and low bisection of Kurosawa’s film, with the first hour set in the moneyed confines of the Kings’ luxe apartment, laden with priceless African American contemporary art.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 14, 2025

A lot of this love coming from the moneyed elite is easy to understand.

From Salon • Dec. 18, 2024

When he was younger, he had admired people with moneyed childhoods and foreign accents, but he had come to sense an unvoiced yearning in them, a sad search for something they could never find.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie