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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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
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