well-to-do
adjective
: having more than adequate financial resources : prosperous
a well-to-do family
Examples of well-to-do in a Sentence
a doctor who is now quite well-to-do as a result of his successful medical practice
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Nancy Guthrie spent Saturday night eating dinner and playing games with family members before one of them dropped her off at her home in a well-to-do Tucson neighborhood that sits on hilly, desert terrain, the sheriff said.
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The bourgeois Alban can’t handle the thought of his well-to-do neighbors seeing members of his own family on the street looking for work.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 31 Jan. 2026
Robin Wright stars as the well-to-do Laura Sanderson, who becomes convinced that her son’s new girlfriend, Cherry (Olivia Cooke), is out to get her.
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The couple lived in a well-to-do neighborhood.
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Arkansas Online, 6 Feb. 2026
The bourgeois Alban can’t handle the thought of his well-to-do neighbors seeing members of his own family on the street looking for work.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 31 Jan. 2026
Robin Wright stars as the well-to-do Laura Sanderson, who becomes convinced that her son’s new girlfriend, Cherry (Olivia Cooke), is out to get her.
—Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Jan. 2026
The couple lived in a well-to-do neighborhood.
—Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 28 Jan. 2026
See All Example Sentences for well-to-do
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“Well-to-do.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/well-to-do. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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