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Significados de costliness em inglês

The quality possessed by something with a great price or value.

        The quality of being expensive.

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              Examples for "expensiveness"
              Examples for "expensiveness"
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              The wines were of characteristic expensiveness, and provoked the same general comment.
              A Sappho of Green Springs
              2
              He had transitory qualms of fear about the possible expensiveness of Helen.
              Helen with the High Hand (2nd ed.)
              3
              All this points to an antagonism between expensiveness and artistic apparel.
              The Theory of the Leisure Class
              4
              The ratios gauge the expensiveness or cheapness of munis versus Treasuries.
              Reuters
              5
              The expensiveness of this ill-timed visit had not occurred to me at the outset.
              A Fool and His Money
              1
              For many current users, the priciness might flip that now to later.
              Wired
              2
              But the priciness is partly illusory and somewhat curiously comforting, say Credit Suisse analysts.
              Reuters
              Uso de costliness em inglês
              1
              The results were consequently very unsatisfactory, both as regards inaccuracy and costliness.
              James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography
              2
              This room was an exquisite combination of costliness and comfort,-Luxuryat home.
              The Parisians — Complete
              3
              It signifies this even in costliness; but in form it signifies infinitely more.
              Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life
              4
              The alarming costliness of the gift caused talk in the green-room.
              Poor Relations
              5
              From its costliness, however, this is only desirable for small work.
              On Laboratory Arts
              6
              And each family tried to outdo the rest in the costliness of their parties.
              Modern Skepticism: A Journey Through the Land of Doubt and Back ...
              7
              Productions in gold and ivory, from the costliness of these objects, were extremely rare.
              Early European History
              8
              On the other hand, mere costliness does not constitute the soul of a present.
              Routledge's Manual of Etiquette
              9
              The costliness of books was a great refiner of literature.
              The Function of the Poet, and Other Essays
              10
              Their costliness therefore, lay in those additions which they received from the king's charge.
              Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03
              11
              But equally, they all seemed quite unconscious of their costliness.
              Clayhanger
              12
              Every window was a miracle of taste, refinement, and costliness.
              The Lion's Share
              13
              For its costliness-andthoroughness-itcould have been Houphouët's Taj Mahal.
              The masque of africa: glimpses of african belief
              14
              Each one exceeded the other in splendor and costliness.
              Views A-foot; Or, Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff
              15
              One lies in its costliness: the average couple cannot afford a double establishment, even temporarily.
              In Defense of Women
              16
              There was no affectation of costliness about the rooms, but a wonderful accumulation of comfort.
              The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 07
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