expensively
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[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
- Catalan: carament (ca) , costosament (ca)
- Czech: draze (cs)
- Finnish: kalliisti , kalliilla
- German: teuer (de)
- Greek: ακριβά (el) (akrivá)
- Hungarian: drágán (hu)
- Navajo: ílį́įgo
- Polish: drogo (pl)
- Portuguese: caramente , custosamente
- Russian: до́рого (ru) (dórogo)
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: drogo
- Spanish: costosamente (es)