Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an expensive manner; with great expense.
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- adverb In an
expensive manner.
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- adverb in an expensive manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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BENNETT: That she was headed on a course that would cause her to die young and die badly and die expensively, which is what happens with obese patients, as we all understand.
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He is the so-called expensively dressed man who killed Cleonymus.
See Delphi and Die Davis, Lindsey 2005
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"Hung" is resigned to the virtual impossibility of someone like Ray ever landing in the kind of expensively light and airy houses of his clients.
NYT > Home Page 2010
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We need to make use of our existing hard won and too expensively developed capabilities.
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All part of the welcome of the newly (and expensively, and unnecessarily) refurbished transit mall, we guess.
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"In dueling PowerPoint presentations before the 10-member panel, appointed by the Obama administration in April, NASA officials defended their progress in developing the next generation of rockets, while challengers said that they could do the job more quickly and less expensively."
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All part of the welcome of the newly (and expensively, and unnecessarily) refurbished transit mall, we guess.
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"In dueling PowerPoint presentations before the 10-member panel, appointed by the Obama administration in April, NASA officials defended their progress in developing the next generation of rockets, while challengers said that they could do the job more quickly and less expensively."
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And lo and behold, in several ways the league's guidelines are even stricter than FIFA's guidelines, and so the Timbers 'expensively renovated stadium clearly won't meet them.
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And lo and behold, in several ways the league's guidelines are even stricter than FIFA's guidelines, and so the Timbers 'expensively renovated stadium clearly won't meet them.
Another substandard story about the PGE Park soccer renovation (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009
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