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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—Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 8 Apr. 2026
Madison was emblematic of Lamont’s appeal — and broader Democratic gains — in well-to-do suburbs that once skewed Republican.
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Kapil Komireddi, New Yorker, 10 Apr. 2026
Studded with private island resorts and crisscrossed by megayachts, the British Virgin Islands have long been considered the Caribbean playground of the well-to-do.
—Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 9 Apr. 2026
Agnes, the well-to-do daughter of a Commander who is nearly ready to be married off herself; and Daisy, a teenager from Canada who realizes her parents were part of the Mayday resistance just after they are murdered by Gilead operatives.
—Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 8 Apr. 2026
Madison was emblematic of Lamont’s appeal — and broader Democratic gains — in well-to-do suburbs that once skewed Republican.
—Kaitlin McCallum, Hartford Courant, 3 Apr. 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 17 Apr. 2026.
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