An expensively dressed little man turned a corner and approached her. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : an expensive party. From Dictionary.com.
He is the so-called expensively dressed man who killed Cleonymus. From Wordnik.com. [See Delphi and Die]
Hiram did not intend to raise the calf expensively, however. From Wordnik.com. [Hiram the Young Farmer] Reference
Cortin found the chapel to be exquisitely -- and expensively!. From Wordnik.com. [The Alembic Plot A Terran Empire novel] Reference
The slave is neither fed nor clothed so expensively as a freeman. From Wordnik.com. [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus] Reference
The Dutchwoman dresses expensively in all the towns, and generally well. From Wordnik.com. [Dutch Life in Town and Country] Reference
Does he dress expensively, and is he able to give costly entertainments?. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference
She was expensively attired, her garments rustling richly when she moved. From Wordnik.com. [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference
The most becomingly dressed woman is not always the most expensively dressed. From Wordnik.com. [Etiquette] Reference
"Most expensively -- I mean, most expeditionlessly," said Val Jacinto eagerly. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift in the Land of Wonders, or, the Underground Search for the Idol of Gold] Reference
And we can do things faster, less expensively because we're not a government agency. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 24, 2008] Reference
The goal is to cut prices and supply cars less expensively to Chinese consumers, he said. From Wordnik.com. [Nissan to Create China-Only Brand] Reference
She was expensively dressed, although her torn frock and coat were not in very good taste. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding on Cliff Island Or, The Old Hunter's Treasure Box] Reference
Raymond still lived, too expensively in one, and paid interest on a cumbering old mortgage. From Wordnik.com. [On the Stairs] Reference
She would have been pretty if she had been clean; and was abundantly and expensively ornamented. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
Walter had been expensively educated, but his mother was a singer and he had inherited her talent. From Wordnik.com. [Joe Burke's Last Stand] Reference
It is significant that later these expensively obtained glasses were discarded as "too much trouble.". From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
It comes out absolutely for the orthodox explanation -- absolutely and beautifully, also expensively. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Damned] Reference
Things are much more grown-up in "I Am Love," which wears its heart on its expensively tailored sleeve. From Wordnik.com. ['I Am Love': A 'Madame Bovary' For Our Century] Reference
Nevertheless, many of them were beautifully and expensively fitted up; inclosing magnificent native products. From Wordnik.com. [By Water to the Columbian Exposition] Reference
Ireland is being bled to death, and to her complaints the answer is that she is being expensively administered. From Wordnik.com. [Ireland and the Home Rule Movement] Reference
Where the article offered for sale is quite high in price, the letters sometimes may be very expensively prepared. From Wordnik.com. [How to Write Letters (Formerly The Book of Letters) A Complete Guide to Correct Business and Personal Correspondence] Reference
Her hair was nearly platinum, but so expensively dressed it was impossible to determine whether it was artificially so. From Wordnik.com. [The Deadly Daughters] Reference
I was delighted by the sight of row upon row of computers and printers, all brand new, humming and blinking expensively. From Wordnik.com. [A Tangled Info Web] Reference
It doubles our navy; it enables us to move supplies of every kind from one coast to the other quickly and less expensively. From Wordnik.com. [Evening Round Up More Good Stuff Like Pep] Reference
He lived on alone in his father's house -- expensively; too expensively, of course, for it was an exacting place to keep up. From Wordnik.com. [On the Stairs] Reference
Howel immediately bought a handsome house in Belgravia, furnished it expensively, and began life as a London fine gentleman. From Wordnik.com. [Gladys, the Reaper] Reference
Most had been getting their health care -- intermittently, inefficiently and very expensively -- from hospital emergency rooms. From Wordnik.com. [Let The States Do It] Reference
So instead of trying futilely (and expensively) to stay forever young, Gillick urges readers to focus on the quality of their lives. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Aging Gratefully] Reference
The local and general elections so laboriously (and expensively) organized in Kosovo are the KLA's first real chance at transformation. From Wordnik.com. [Terrorists and Freedom Fighters] Reference
The apartment was well though not expensively furnished, and both mother and child had the unmistakable air of good birth and refinement. From Wordnik.com. [An American Suffragette] Reference
The lavishly (and expensively) reconstructed Jazz Age boardwalk is precise in every way and somehow too ... wooden, if you catch my drift. From Wordnik.com. [As the network onslaught begins, what if the TV critic picked out shows just for you?] Reference
It would cut all sorts of costs from building the vehicles and get them to markets much less expensively than shipping them across an ocean. From Wordnik.com. [Steve Parker: GM Sets Volt Price While Toyota Delays US-Built Prius] Reference
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