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expensive Adjective costing a great deal of money expensiveness n
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expensive adjective costly, high-priced, lavish, extravagant, rich, dear, stiff, excessive, steep (informal) pricey, overpriced, exorbitant << OPPOSITE cheap |
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Who in this humble out-of-the-way cottage could afford to wear that exquisite cambric petticoat edged with a fine and very expensive lace? With halting steps I paced the streets, and passed the sign of The Crossed Harpoons --but it looked too expensive and jolly there. As a general practitioner, he might have bought a comfortable business, with a house and snug surgery-shop attached; but the son-in-law of Lady Malkinshaw was obliged to hold up his head, and set up his carriage, and live in a street near a fashionable square, and keep an expensive and clumsy footman to answer the door, instead of a cheap and tidy housemaid. |
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