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Definition of Expensively
1. Adverb. In an expensive manner. "An expensively dressed little man turned a corner and approached her"
Definition of Expensively
1. Adverb. In an expensive manner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Expensively
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Expensively
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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