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Meanings of expensively in English

In an expensive manner.

Usage of expensively in English
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Critics say city employees could have done the work far less expensively.
Reuters
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The room had been expensively renovated and about 50 people were present.
The new yorker
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Their bodies were left as debris in the roadway so expensively constructed.
The Prince of India; Or, Why Constantinople Fell — Volume 02
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Perhaps a hundred expensively dressed people looked up at the improvised stage.
The Guardian
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She was expensively dressed in grey silk, and wore the family diamonds.
Simon the Jester
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The armies deserted their expensively prepared fortifications and took to the trenches.
Creative Chemistry: Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Ch...
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The most becomingly dressed woman is not always the most expensively dressed.
Etiquette
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It's now called the Mansfield Traquair Centre and has been expensively restored.
Independent.ie
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She was some way short of thirty, expensively dressed, dark, attractive, self-assured.
Jack Reacher 01 - Killing Floor
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With all respect to Pep Guardiola's expensively assembled side, this seems odd.
The Irish Times
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How can they afford all those expensively foraged meals and hand-knitted woollens?
The Guardian
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Now his clothes looked expensively hip, and his hair was cropped short.
She, myself & i
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Does he dress expensively, and is he able to give costly entertainments?
Lessons in Life; A Series of Familiar Essays
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She was dressed so expensively, and she made such a beautiful corpse!
Life in the Clearings versus the Bush
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The Dutchwoman dresses expensively in all the towns, and generally well.
Dutch Life in Town and Country
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They are developed mostly in linen, galatea, and less expensively still in chambray.
Mother's Remedies / Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies ...
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United Kingdom
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