expensively
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[edit]- (US) IPA(key): /ɛkˈspɛn.sɪv.li/
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Adverb
[edit]expensively (comparative more expensively, superlative most expensively)
- In an expensive manner.
- 1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 88:
- Customers are usually enticed in with a "ducat", or pass for one free dance; after that it costs them ten cents a time. I can work out expensively, particularly with the heightened tempo of war.
- 1965, James Holledge, What Makes a Call Girl?, London: Horwitz Publications, page 77:
- The room was expensively furnished.
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[edit]in an expensive manner
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