expensively
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ex·pen·sive
(ĭk-spĕn′sĭv)adj.
1. Requiring a large expenditure; costly.
2. Marked by high prices: expensive stores.
ex·pen′sive·ly adv.
ex·pen′sive·ness n.
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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" |
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expensively
adv → teuer; both boys had been privately, and expensively, educated → beide Jungen hatten teure Privatschulen besucht; she lived expensively but quietly → sie lebte ein aufwendiges or aufwändiges, aber ruhiges Leben; expensively priced → teuer
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