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leisured

[ lee-zherd, lezh-erd ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

having leisure:
the leisured classes.
characterized by leisure; leisurely; unhurried:
the leisured manner of his walk.

ˈleisured

/ ˈlɛʒəd /

usually prenominal having much leisure, as through unearned wealth
the leisured classes
unhurried or relaxed
in a leisured manner

First recorded in 1625–35; leisure + -ed ³

Even before I left England, I had got tired of the ordinary leisured woman's life.

She does not see the twelve and fourteen hour days of work in that rosy dream of good wages and leisured evenings in town.

It was the education of an aristocratic leisured class who had not to earn their living.

The smaller erotic collection in the locked bureau in the study presumably had companioned Sir Jacques' more leisured hours.

The iron and coal valleys of the Vermissa district were no resorts for the leisured or the cultured.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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