Crossword clues for expensiveness
expensiveness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Expensive \Ex*pen"sive\, a.
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Occasioning expense; calling for liberal outlay; costly; dear; liberal; as, expensive dress; an expensive house or family.
War is expensive, and peace desirable.
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Free in expending; very liberal; especially, in a bad sense: extravagant; lavish. [R.]
An active, expensive, indefatigable goodness.
--Sprat.The idle and expensive are dangerous.
--Sir W. Temple.Syn: Costly; dear; high-priced; lavish; extravagant. -- Ex*pen"sive*ly, adv. -- Ex*pen"sive*ness, n.
Wiktionary
n. The state of being expensive; entailing great expense.
WordNet
n. the quality of being high-priced [ant: inexpensiveness]
Usage examples of "expensiveness".
Those which are termed fashionable, and which imitate the expensiveness of the hotels without furnishing a tithe of their comforts, are located in the Fifth avenue, Broadway, and the Fourth avenue, or near those streets.
The middle classes have begun to rebel against the expensiveness of education, and the war will bankrupt the majority of the public schools if it continues for another year or two.