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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
leisured
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ At 50, Larry won the lottery and became a member of the leisured class.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But the lush, leisured spaces he portrays, a happy marriage of town and country, have gone.
▪ His equivalent of Edwardian leisured escapism is today's green movement.
▪ Only with the rise of a leisured class, supported by the enforced toil of others, was the balance upset.
▪ That left little for leisured women to do.
▪ The leisured classes have had more attention than they deserve.
▪ The picture thus sketched is in strong contrast to the popular view of housewives as a leisured class.
▪ The questioning was polite and leisured but thorough.
▪ The same leisured friendly atmosphere prevailed among the crowds in the park.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Leisured

Leisured \Lei"sured\ (l[=e]"zh[-u]rd), a. Having leisure. ``The leisured classes.''
--Gladstone.

Wiktionary
leisured

a. Having leisure, having time that need not be dedicated to work.

WordNet
leisured

adj. free from duties or responsibilities; "he writes in his leisure hours"; "life as it ought to be for the leisure classes"- J.J.Chapman; "even the artist and the sculptor were not regarded...as leisured men"- Ida Craven

Usage examples of "leisured".

The vine-screened window in which they now talked overlooked the neighboring Temple house, a dignified sentry at the point where the leisured street forsook the chaffer of the town to climb amidst arching elms and maples, above whose gaudy autumn masses rose the dome of the courthouse and the spires of many churches.

The traditional idea of education, he saw, stemmed from a leisured and aristocratic society, the type of society that was disappearing fast in European societies and had never existed in America.

But always in that nightmare the Saint's fantastic optimism led him on, dancing ahead like a will-o'-the-wisp, trailing him dizzily behind into hell-for-leather audacities which Roger, in the more leisured days that followed, would remember in a cold sweat.

All down the Rue Beaune we ran, and already I could hear behind me the heavy and more leisured tramp of a couple of gendarmes who in their turn had started to give chase.

To Guillam, Haydon was of that unrepeatable, fading Circus generation, to which his parents and George Smiley also belonged - exclusive and in Haydon's case blueblooded - which had lived a dozen leisured lives to his own hasty one, and still, thirty years later, gave the Circus its dying flavour of adventure.

The calm leisured voice rose to a sudden shout that brought the somnolent reporter jack-in-the-box bolt upright and sent him scurrying after notebook and pen that had spilled over the floor.

The APC had more carrying capacity than the little liferaft, and using it provided hands-on experience in a leisured environment.

Their leisured world had been turned topsy-turvy, and their pleadings, prayers and advice availed nothing against the powerful forces sweeping them along.

They turned with leisured dignity, and headed back down the steps, sweeping those who had pressed too close casually out of the way with the pressor beam.

Their voices were soft and hushed, the pace leisured as they shared the same pillow and spoke of a thousand different things: their hopes, their dreams, their yearnings, their past, present, and future.