All 10 Uses
prosperous
in
Babbitt
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- He seemed prosperous, extremely married and unromantic; and altogether unromantic appeared this sleeping-porch, which looked on one sizable elm, two respectable grass-plots, a cement driveway, and a corrugated iron garage.†
Chpt 1
- To George F. Babbitt, as to most prosperous citizens of Zenith, his motor car was poetry and tragedy, love and heroism.†
Chpt 3 *
- Supposing Lyte and I were stinking enough to want to ruin any fellow human, don't you suppose we know it's to our own selfish interest to have everybody in Zenith prosperous?†
Chpt 4
- He cut two tufts of wild grass with his wife's largest dressmaking-scissors; he informed Ted that it was all nonsense having a furnace-man—"big husky fellow like you ought to do all the work around the house;" and privately he meditated that it was agreeable to have it known throughout the neighborhood that he was so prosperous that his son never worked around the house.†
Chpt 6
- Of these men one resembled a testy and prosperous grocer, one a Yankee carpenter, one a soda-clerk, and one a Russian Jewish actor The Russian Jew quoted Kautsky, Gene Debs, and Abraham Lincoln.†
Chpt 7
- Is anything more standardized than England, with every house that can afford it having the same muffins at the same tea-hour, and every retired general going to exactly the same evensong at the same gray stone church with a square tower, and every golfing prig in Harris tweeds saying 'Right you are!' to every other prosperous ass?†
Chpt 7
- The men leaned back on their heels, put their hands in their trousers-pockets, and proclaimed their views with the booming profundity of a prosperous male repeating a thoroughly hackneyed statement about a matter of which he knows nothing whatever.†
Chpt 8
- In Floral Heights and the other prosperous sections of Zenith, especially in the "young married set," there were many women who had nothing to do.†
Chpt 9
- The Doppelbraus were respectable people, industrious people, prosperous people, whose ideal of happiness was an eternal cabaret.†
Chpt 29
- To the League belonged most of the prosperous citizens of Zenith.†
Chpt 34
Definitions:
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(1)
(prosperous) successful or good -- especially with regard to finances or wealth
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)