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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
expensively
    adv 1: in an expensive manner; "an expensively dressed little
           man turned a corner and approached her" [ant: cheaply,
           inexpensively, tattily]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Expensive \Ex*pen"sive\, a.
   1. Occasioning expense; calling for liberal outlay; costly;
      dear; liberal; as, expensive dress; an expensive house or
      family.
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            War is expensive, and peace desirable. --Burke.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Free in expending; very liberal; especially, in a bad
      sense: extravagant; lavish. [R.]
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            An active, expensive, indefatigable goodness.
                                                  --Sprat.
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            The idle and expensive are dangerous. --Sir W.
                                                  Temple.

   Syn: Costly; dear; high-priced; lavish; extravagant. --
        Ex*pen"sive*ly, adv. -- Ex*pen"sive*ness, n.
        [1913 Webster]

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