ADJECTIVE
  1. in fortunate circumstances financially; moderately rich
    they were comfortable or even wealthy by some standards
    his family is well-situated financially
    easy living
    well-to-do members of the community
    a prosperous family
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How To Use well-to-do In A Sentence

  • well-to-do members of the community
  • Many well-to-do households have VCRs, and rented videos are available in the bazaars (markets).
  • Instead, they only serve to ease the consciences of the well-to-do while keeping the poor out of sight.
  • You should be happy that your daughters have married into this well-to-do and respectable family.
  • Of the tea and coffee it might be said, as once it was said of two bad roads – "whichever one you take, you will wish you had taken the other;" the beefsteak was a problem of impracticability; and the chickens – Fleda could not help thinking, that a well-to-do rooster which she saw flapping his wings in the yard, must, in all probability, be at that very moment endeavouring to account for a sudden breach in his social circle; and if the oysters had been some very fine ladies, they could hardly have retained less recollection of their original circumstances. Queechy
  • The Roman Catholic Religion was a pwerful force through much of Venice's history, so during carnival's the well-to-do Venitians would don masks so that if the behavior became "uncatholic" the bishops would not now who they were. TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
  • The large well-to-do families those great houses were built for left long ago.
  • Hotels and the more well-to-do families on the hillsides would set off fireworks.
  • This was especially the case among the well-to-do, who had ample space for guests and the means to travel.
  • Her family are very well-to-do. The Sun
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