expensively

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English

Etymology

From expensive +‎ -ly.

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Adverb

expensively (comparative more expensively, superlative most expensively)

  1. 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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