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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Carlo Versano, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
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From the start, they were considered fashionable transportation, chosen by well-to-do ladies to pop about or driven for ceremonial use.
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Carlo Versano, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
Creator and showrunner Patrick Macmanus opens with the 1978 abduction of Robert Piest, whose well-to-do family triggers a police investigation that uncovers multiple bodies under John Wayne Gacy’s (Michael Chernus) floorboards.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2025
From the start, they were considered fashionable transportation, chosen by well-to-do ladies to pop about or driven for ceremonial use.
—Will Sabel Courtney, Robb Report, 10 Oct. 2025
Isidore Newman is a well-to-do private school that plays private school opponents, not Class 6A giants.
—Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Oct. 2025
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 3 Nov. 2025.
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