Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Characterized by leisure.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having ample leisure; not occupied with business.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having leisure.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having
leisure , having time that need not be dedicated to work.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective free from duties or responsibilities
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Examples
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Oh, and the poet has to belong to the "leisured" class and have been dead for 80 years, at least.
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Even in his pomp Takeover Target would not have won Group One prizes back home with this kind of leisured acceleration.
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What was Andy Warhol but Duchamp for the leisured class?
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An extreme polarization formed between a class that was almost entirely leisured and one that was perpetually laboring, with virtually zero chance of social or personal advancement.
What the Help Really Saw Elizabeth Lowry 2012
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They are set to become the preserve of the leisured classes, the old Etonians, the daughters of old Etonians and the odd model with a couple of million in the bank.
If you want to bag a royal, study Botticelli | Carole Cadwalladr 2011
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The verb "to bore" does not appear in the English lexicon until the late 18th century, leading some historians to conclude that it is a uniquely modern phenomenon, the product of our individualist and leisured age.
Accidie? Ennui? Sigh . . . Elizabeth Lowry 2011
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He spoke of "leisured gaiety": kiss-me-quick hats and fairground novelties alongside solemn Henry Moore figures.
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They are set to become the preserve of the leisured classes, the old Etonians, the daughters of old Etonians and the odd model with a couple of million in the bank.
If you want to bag a royal, study Botticelli | Carole Cadwalladr 2011
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Traditionally this weekend marked the beginning of a six-week holiday period when the leisured classes would move their entire household up to a lodge in the hills.
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Rich and leisured as well as dedicated as he was, he brought tears to the eyes of those who watched and admired him, and in the easy, cordial accessibility of a famous man one could nonetheless greet across the street or the fairway.
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H works finger up nose with leisured
thoroughness of assured privacy.
- Peter Reading, Choreograph, from Fiction, 1979
June 26, 2008