expensive
adjective
entailing great expense; very high-priced; costly.
expensively
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a word derived from
expensive.
Example Sentences
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Brentford made it a miserable start to the Premier League season for Roberto de Zerbi's expensively rebuilt Tottenham Hotspur side with an emphatic 3-0 victory at The Gtech Community Stadium.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
AI does several things in personal finance that human advisers do poorly or expensively.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 1, 2026
After precious few nights out without our kids, we had willingly suspended our better judgment—only to be reminded, expensively, that there are better ways to signal how you feel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026
Unfortunately for Frank, Tottenham's first-half display was closer to a non-league effort than the standards expected of his expensively assembled team.
From Barron's ● Jan. 10, 2026
These are not pots for cooking, I should point out, just decorative pots deployed to catch stray beams of sunlight or reflect the owners’ no doubt expensively buffed and peeled faces.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
