adjective
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(usually prenominal) having much leisure, as through unearned wealth
the leisured classes
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unhurried or relaxed
in a leisured manner
Other Word Forms
- unleisured adjective
Etymology
Origin of leisured
Example Sentences
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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 airbrushed T-shirt, long consigned to the twin bastions of leisured Americana — malls and West Coast boardwalks — was “back.”
From New York Times • Nov. 14, 2017
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
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