Definition of Expensively

1. Adverb. In an expensive manner. "An expensively dressed little man turned a corner and approached her"

Antonyms: Cheaply
Partainyms: Expensive

Definition of Expensively

1. Adverb. In an expensive manner. ¹

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Definition of Expensively

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Expensively

expenders
expending
expenditures
expends
expense account
expense record
expensed
expenseful
expenseless
expenses
expensing
expensive
expensive drunk
expensively (current term)
expensiveness
expensivenesses
experienc't
experience
experience is the best teacher
experience point
experience points
experienceable
experienced
experiencedly
experienceless
experiencer
experiencers
experiences

Literary usage of Expensively

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Health Trip to the Tropics by Nathaniel Parker Willis (1853)
"... SUGAR- STICK PAY OF BLACK LABORERS NAKEDNESS IN TROPICAL CLIMATES EBONY BABIES UN-DIAPERED—expensively DRESSED COLORED BELLES WITH BARE FEET EMANCIPATED ..."

2. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1847)
"... expensively, and which we therefore conclude some people buy for their children; though it is impossible they should derive amusement from them, ..."

3. Aquinas Ethicus: Or, The Moral Teaching of St. Thomas. A Translation of the by Thomas, Joseph Rickaby (1896)
"Are the species of gluttony distinguished according to these five conditions: too soon, too expensively, too much, too eagerly, too daintily ? ..."

4. Aquinas Ethicus: Or, The Moral Teaching of St. Thomas. A Translation of the by Thomas, Joseph Rickaby (1896)
"Are the species of gluttony distinguished according to these five conditions : too soon, too expensively. too much, too eagerly, too daintily ? ..."

5. Passages from the French and Italian Note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1873)
"The result is well enough; the rich man lives expensively, and pays a larger share of the profits which people of a different system of trade-morality would ..."

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