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Vinony

expensively

adverb

  1. in an expensive manner/with great expense
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Pronunciation: /ɛkˈspɛn.sɪv.li/

adv

Etymology: Etymology tree English expensive Middle English -ly English -ly English expensively From expensive + -ly.

  1. In an expensive manner.

    “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.”

    “The room was expensively furnished.”