silver-spooned

adjective

1. informal,  born into, of, or relating to a wealthy upper-class family

Word History and Origins

Origin of silver-spooned¹

C20: from born with a silver spoon in one's mouth ; see _spoon

Example Sentences

Ivy League-educated sons of the silver-spooned stand tall behind lecterns in GOP-controlled legislatures throughout the United States, pressing their weight down into their Loro Pianas and claiming to speak for the working class.

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“The last thing the company shareholders need is yet another silver-spooned movie enthusiast to run our entertainment company into the ground,” shareholder Blackwood Capital Management wrote in a blistering letter to Paramount’s board.

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This local foursome is known for doling out pointed pro-fem pop-punk ditties that address mansplaining or target millennial malaise and silver-spooned brats.

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Mendes also embraces her character Veronica’s vibe as a silver-spooned heiress.

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These include the deployment of “shock-and-awe” violence, loathing of cucks, cultural Marxists and feminists, re-imagining a silver-spooned posturer like Bush as superman, and, finally, the political apotheosis of a serial groper.

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