Describing certain income

Usage examples of unearned.

A rise in the price would bring on the euphoric expectation of huge sums of unearned wealth coming his way, while a fall in price would lead to the terrifying prospect of utter ruin .

It was the political power behind their activities—the power of forced, unearned, economically unjustified privileges—that caused dislocations in the country's economy, hardships, depressions, and mounting public protests.

You were getting your food unearned and you concluded that affection did not have to be earned, either.

He is the man who became the symbol of the idea that need, not achievement, is the source of rights, that we don't have to produce, only to want, that the earned does not belong to us, but the unearned does.

As so often in the past, I was the victim of my own glorious and entirely unearned reputation - Flashy, the hero of Jallalabad, the last man out of the Kabul retreat and the first man into the Balaclava battery, the beau sabreur of the Light Cavalry, Queen's Medal, Thanks of Parliament, darling of the mob, with a liver as yellow as yesterday's custard, if they'd only known it.

More extraordinary still to my mind is the thought that nearly 300 years later the duke's heirs can litter the grounds with miniature trains and bouncing castles, charge admission and enjoy unearned positions of rank and privilege simply because a distant grandsire happened to have a passing talent for winning battles.

An unearned income encourages self-pity in those already prone to it.

That is called unearned income, but actually I have earned it by the years of devoted service I have rendered to the company.

On box number four, a dissipated young man with the world-weariness that goes with a large unearned income.

Fat and lazy from living off unearned income-they didn't even want to do their own fighting, until those scraggly mercenaries they'd hired found out what they were up against, and turned tail.

That bootee, through growth and inflation, has come to be worth four times that much now, giving me an unearned income of seven thousand dollars a year.

Fat and lazy from living off unearned income--they didn't even want to do their own fighting, until those scraggly mercenaries they'd hired found out what they were up against, and turned tail.