privileged

[ UK /pɹˈɪvɪlɪd‍ʒd/ ]
[ US /ˈpɹɪvɪɫədʒd, ˈpɹɪvɪɫɪdʒd, ˈpɹɪvɫədʒd, ˈpɹɪvɫɪdʒd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. blessed with privileges
    the privileged few
  2. confined to an exclusive group
    inside information
    privileged information
    privy to inner knowledge
  3. not subject to usual rules or penalties
    a privileged statement
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How To Use privileged In A Sentence

  • Laura Wade's Posh, timed to open as the Tories edged into power in May 2010, reminded us just what we were in for: overprivileged hooligans in drinking-society blazers who trash a pub as thoughtlessly as they will trash the country. Dominic Cooke: a life in theatre
  • They will attend as many cocktail parties, skiing holidays and hunt meetings as it takes to convince us they're not a bunch of privileged freeloaders.
  • How anyone could have read some sinister intent into those views is indeed puzzling, and illustrates well how those damned Jewshow certain hypersensitive and overly privileged people who feel superior to the rest of the world are willing to cut their own throats for short term advantage by using unjustified charges of anti-semitism to point out how they take advantage of their position in any nation or institution who trusts them so as to benefit their own in group at the expense of that nation or institution. The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Catholics and Jews?
  • They come from a privileged/wealthy background.
  • They have said they want to reduce the pensions of privileged federal civil servants and use the money for social programmes.
  • Almost half a century later their privileged lifestyle and their aura of being an exclusive caste still attracted comment.
  • What began as a cheap and easy way to disguise the taste of alcohol in prohibition America quickly became the drink of choice for the privileged fast set of the 1920s.
  • Unprivileged belligerency is not a violation of the law of war for Omar Khadr any more than it would be for you to fight against an invading army to protect your home and family. Balkinization
  • We are privileged to have internationally important fish stocks on our doorstep, including salmon in the River Kent, and rare species such as char and schelly in the nearby lakes.
  • It made me realise I'm living in a nest of privileged Tory vipers!
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