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costly Adjective [-lier, -liest] 1. expensive 2. involving great loss or sacrifice: a bitter and costly war costliness n
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costly adjective 1. expensive, dear, stiff, excessive, steep (informal) highly-priced, exorbitant, extortionate << OPPOSITE inexpensive How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| I reckon to be costly, not them alone which charge the purse, but which are wearisome, and importune in suits. At last he dreamt one night that he found a beautiful purple flower, and that in the middle of it lay a costly pearl; and he dreamt that he plucked the flower, and went with it in his hand into the castle, and that everything he touched with it was disenchanted, and that there he found his Jorinda again. Whereupon I was at much pains to describe to him the use of money, the materials it was made of, and the value of the metals; "that when a YAHOO had got a great store of this precious substance, he was able to purchase whatever he had a mind to; the finest clothing, the noblest houses, great tracts of land, the most costly meats and drinks, and have his choice of the most beautiful females. |
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