How to Use monied in a Sentence

monied

adjective
  • Wear it with jeans or swishy wide-legs for a monied look.
    Leah Melby Clinton, Harper's BAZAAR, 3 Feb. 2023
  • As for the monied class that claims to believe in the movement, the jury is out.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2022
  • This week alone, five horses were scratched from the day’s most monied race.
    Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2023
  • Francesca was a dazzling beauty but far from a monied catch.
    Brian T. Allen, National Review, 19 Sep. 2020
  • His use of furs, leathers, and fine fabrics screamed status for a new type of monied shopper.
    CNN, 29 Sep. 2021
  • Harris had the backing of monied donors, but the public barely knew her.
    Kathleen Ronayne and Maryclaire Dale, chicagotribune.com, 17 Aug. 2020
  • Which means the bootleggers are squeezed out by the monied interests.
    John Koopman, Rolling Stone, 21 Sep. 2023
  • But this is what happens in the monied musical chairs of NFL free agency.
    Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 15 Mar. 2022
  • Each of his collections are Kors to the core, with designs that speak to the monied noughties, but with a tasteful restraint.
    Vogue, 5 Nov. 2021
  • And now Schumer is giving the monied CEOs his chamber’s microphones.
    Matt Laslo, WIRED, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Now the brand is synonymous with monied young professionals who know what looks good but don’t want to make a fuss.
    Camille Okhio, ELLE Decor, 30 Nov. 2022
  • The Constants, who had a son and two daughters, the youngest of whom was in her teens, moved into a spacious house on Oaklawn Drive, in Chillicothe’s more monied end.
    Ian Parker, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2021
  • Stylish Sanremo attracts a discreet, monied crowd, with yachts gliding over from the nearby Côte d’Azur.
    Catherine Sabino, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Premiering January 24, the show highlights the tension between New York City’s old and new monied elite.
    Kimberly Hamlin, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Jan. 2022
  • When that didn’t take off, the owners sensed the growing presence of a younger, whiter, and (slightly) more monied crowd in the neighborhood, many of whom had recently come to the Lower East Side for its art scene.
    Hugh Ryan, Curbed, 12 Sep. 2023
  • They are fed up with monied outsiders streaming into the state and blame them for driving up prices, taking land and eroding Montana’s rugged culture.
    Paul Overberg, WSJ, 22 Oct. 2023
  • His thumping rhetoric and ease with the common man terrified Portland’s monied interests.
    oregonlive, 20 July 2021
  • Whereas his daughter’s domicile, shared with her husband, played by Hugh Grant, and their son, has a style that’s still monied but much more relaxed—or as relaxed as can be with Gerhardt Richter paintings on the wall.
    Adam Rathe, Town & Country, 2 Nov. 2020
  • By the 1950s, when la dolce vita was in full swing in Rome and Manhattan was a playground for monied movers and shakers, Gucci was outfitting and accessorizing it all.
    Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 2 Nov. 2021
  • For a show about not paying rent, Rent helped bring a wave of new, more monied residents to the Village, and ushered in its hypergentrification.
    Hugh Ryan, Curbed, 12 Sep. 2023
  • The status quo in our economy continues to favor the wealthy and those with monied interests who wield outsized influence.
    Time, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Space law has a beautiful set of origins and aspirations, Weeks says, but there are ways monied interests could exploit that vagueness to crowd low Earth orbit.
    Khari Johnson, WIRED, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Reviews have been mixed, with some critics praising it as a skillful dissection of the monied elite and others decrying it as an overly ripe melodrama.
    Brent Lang, Variety, 25 Nov. 2021
  • How to recover a tradition of rebellion against monied claims to property.
    Eula Biss, The New Yorker, 8 June 2022
  • China’s monied authoritarians are building out a maritime force to do just that.
    Craig Hooper, Forbes, 28 June 2021
  • Those holiday playgrounds where the old-monied set clinked Champagne glasses with oligarchs of modern industry and pretty young things with Hollywood stars in their eyes.
    Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 23 Dec. 2020
  • Some people affected by the bank’s collapse will be in much more precarious situations than some of the monied investors and tech insiders tweeting through the crisis.
    WIRED, 13 Mar. 2023
  • As all scientists know, values and politics and prejudices and monied interests cannot be separated out of their field.
    Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 16 Sep. 2020
  • Once the pathogen began spreading rapidly in the United States in early 2020, the urgent need to curb transmission by shutting down nonessential business and paying people to stay home was pitted against monied interests.
    Natalie Shure, The New Republic, 30 Aug. 2021
  • Films focusing on systemic inequality, or the monied elite’s morally murky ways, arrive as many industry voters have spent the better part of the year on the picket lines, holding out for a better contract from studios.
    Clayton Davis, Variety, 28 Sep. 2023

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