leisured in the PONS Dictionary

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They may be members of the leisured classes, but the world's aristocrats stayed plenty busy in 2010.
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Lacking a titled aristocracy and leisured class colonial society encouraged an egalitarianism of manners.
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Art fairs combine the brashness of the supermarket with a conceptual trickiness that used to be the sole province of leisured intellectuals with too much time on their hands.
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It is a frightful myth that the love of beauty is only to be found in leisured, educated people.
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It was one in which work was largely a means to an end -- the working class had become a leisured class.
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The verandah was a sign of prestige which indicated that the occupant was of a more leisured social class.
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He lived the leisured life of a prince as a young man.
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The pond was at the heart both of the garden and of the wonderfully leisured, light-hearted and sensuous lifestyle of the aristocracy.
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This phrase is often used to typify a particular genre of drawing room comedy about the leisured upper class.
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The equality of knowledge, the pursuit of learning for the purest of reasons remains a position often relegated to hedonism of a leisured class.
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