Words similar to well-heeled
Example sentences for: well-heeled
How can you use “well-heeled” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
A faded resort of earlier times, dignified San Remo is the best known, with its well-heeled casino and elegant promenade along the Corso Imperatrice.
Now seriously, Chris, if you had a bunch of well-heeled businessmen ready to fulfill your every whim, wouldn't you ask for something better than a titanium knee or a riding mower?
Nor, at the other end of the scale, can we match the Spanish superlative suffix - ísimo , e.g., grandísimo, altísimo, bellísimo (rendered in English as the `biggest,' the `highest,' the `most beautiful,' although for an exact equivalency one would use the other superlative form in Spanish, más grande, más alto, más bello ). Nothing I have ever heard in English can match the breadth of lighthearted insult expressed by a Spanish wit some years ago who used the suffix with reference to the notoriously pampered, well-connected, well-heeled, well-placed brother-in-law ( cu ñado ) of Francisco Franco.
According to one South Carolina paper, soccer mom is "a well-heeled super-parent whose primary mission in life is to do too much for her children.
After all, the use of a hyphen in adverb/adjective compounds is a matter of style, which can be described in a rule: in position before a noun, compounds with well --indeed, any not ending in - ly --like well-heeled, well-known, well-thought-out , are hyphenated, as in well-heeled gambler, well-known man-about-town, a well-thought-out plan ; but when they are in predicative position, as in Is she well heeled enough to sit in on our game?
Loading...