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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Billy Warlock stars as Big Beautiful Bill Whitney: a high schooler who doesn’t fit in with his well-to-do family from Southern California.
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Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 4 July 2025
Authorities soon identified the victim as William H. Kirk, a 50-year-old, well-to-do horse dealer, who’d said goodbye to his wife Minnie, 23, and their 6-week-old child on Christmas Eve to head off to Cheviot on business.
—Amber Hunt, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
More realistically, the doubt that continues to this day is an effect of how badly politicians panicked in ways that were not just bad for well-to-do Americans and Europeans, but monstrously so for the world’s poorest.
—John Tamny, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
Created by soap legend Michelle Val Jean, Gates centers on the saga of the well-to-do Dupree family, pillars of society in an elite (and drama-filled) Black enclave near Washington, D.C.
—EW.com, 25 June 2025
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Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 4 July 2025
Authorities soon identified the victim as William H. Kirk, a 50-year-old, well-to-do horse dealer, who’d said goodbye to his wife Minnie, 23, and their 6-week-old child on Christmas Eve to head off to Cheviot on business.
—Amber Hunt, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
More realistically, the doubt that continues to this day is an effect of how badly politicians panicked in ways that were not just bad for well-to-do Americans and Europeans, but monstrously so for the world’s poorest.
—John Tamny, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
Created by soap legend Michelle Val Jean, Gates centers on the saga of the well-to-do Dupree family, pillars of society in an elite (and drama-filled) Black enclave near Washington, D.C.
—EW.com, 25 June 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 20 Jul. 2025.
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