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expensively

adv
/ɛkˈspɛn.sɪv.li/US

Etymology

From expensive + -ly.

  1. borrowed from *expēnsīvus✻
  2. suffixed as expensively — “expensive + ly”

Definitions

  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.

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