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expensively

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ex·pen·sive  (k-spnsv)
adj.
1. Requiring a large expenditure; costly.
2. Marked by high prices: expensive stores.

ex·pensive·ly adv.
ex·pensive·ness n.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adv.1.expensively - in an expensive manner; "an expensively dressed little man turned a corner and approached her"
inexpensively, tattily, cheaply - in a cheap manner; "a cheaply dressed woman approached him in the bar"
Translations
expensively [ɪkˈspɛnsɪvli] adv [dressed] → de façon coûteuse
expensively
advteuer; both boys had been privately, and expensively, educatedbeide Jungen hatten teure Privatschulen besucht; she lived expensively but quietlysie lebte ein aufwendiges or aufwändiges, aber ruhiges Leben; expensively pricedteuer
expensively [ɪksˈpɛnsɪvlɪ] adv (dress) → in modo costoso
expensively [ɪksˈpɛnsɪvlɪ] adv (dress) → in modo costoso


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She had found some acquaintance, had been so lucky too as to find in them the family of a most worthy old friend; and, as the completion of good fortune, had found these friends by no means so expensively dressed as herself.
The poor girl was paler and thinner than when I had last seen her, doubtless, I thought, the effects of her late illness; but I could not conceal from myself the unpleasant fact that she was much less expensively clad.
At Startop's suggestion, we put ourselves down for election into a club called The Finches of the Grove: the object of which institution I have never divined, if it were not that the members should dine expensively once a fortnight, to quarrel among themselves as much as possible after dinner, and to cause six waiters to get drunk on the stairs.
 
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