Adjective : an expensive party. From Dictionary.com.
Mary was used to the expensiveness of Mrs. O'Callahan, but here was a new kind of expensiveness, subtle and compelling, strangely unconscious. From Wordnik.com. [King Coal : a Novel] Reference
In other words, “superior expensiveness or futility.”. From Wordnik.com. [60 in 60: #38 – Thorstein Veblen’s Conspicuous Consumption (Penguin’s Great Ideas Series)] Reference
At the delicatessen he bought preposterous stores of food, chosen on the principle of expensiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Babbit] Reference
There were fifteen hearses, with palls varying in expensiveness; there were actually two catafalques. From Wordnik.com. [Bobok] Reference
Why he had not toiled the whole five years under the spell of opium was the expensiveness of the habit. From Wordnik.com. [THE TEARS OF AH KIM] Reference
No publication of equal splendor and expensiveness has ever before been so well received in this country. From Wordnik.com. [International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 9, August 26, 1850] Reference
Yet this Waikiki house stressed no less than the rest in beauty, in dignity, and in expensiveness of upkeep. From Wordnik.com. [ON THE MAKALOA MAT] Reference
No, not for the world; what man of sense would bear the insolences, the petulances, the expensiveness of a wife!. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
I also wonder if the number of lawyers correlates with the expensiveness and inefficiency of services in a region?. From Wordnik.com. [VDARE.com: Blog Articles » Print » Obamacare Needs To Move Us Closer To Canada, Literally] Reference
But they felt very serious and grown-up when Mummy spoke about "sentimental value" and the expensiveness of the watch. From Wordnik.com. [Land Divers] Reference
Once, she even considered taking up with hand-painted china, but gave over the idea when she learned its expensiveness. From Wordnik.com. [CHAPTER IV] Reference
I don't know but I might make one among them myself, now and then, if it was not for the expensiveness of hiring of a horse. '. From Wordnik.com. [Camilla] Reference
You will thereby avoid the expensiveness and uncertainty of doing business through a nicely dressed, but irresponsible stranger. From Wordnik.com. [The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy] Reference
The expensiveness of friendship does not lie in what one does for one's friends, but in what, out of regard for them, one leaves undone. From Wordnik.com. [For Auld Lang Syne] Reference
Many dishes cost little for the materials, but owe their daintiness and expensiveness to the care bestowed in cooking or to a fine sauce. From Wordnik.com. [Choice Cookery] Reference
She thought how splendid was all this expensiveness for trade. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Wives' Tale] Reference
There was therefore no basis for a growth of taste in disregard of expensiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Theory of the Leisure Class] Reference
The wines were of characteristic expensiveness, and provoked the same general comment. From Wordnik.com. [A Sappho of Green Springs] Reference
One cannot meet them effectively by mere counter-insistency on war's expensiveness and horror. From Wordnik.com. [Memories and Studies] Reference
The marks of expensiveness come to be accepted as beautiful features of the expensive articles. From Wordnik.com. [Theory of the Leisure Class] Reference
The tailor reported visits from those who would feel of the cloth, and figure its expensiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Long Live the King!] Reference
It had ended with an American ice-cream, brought in carefully by Pepy, because of its expensiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Long Live the King!] Reference
Her mother's tremendous new gown ballooned about her in all its fantastic richness and expensiveness. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Wives' Tale] Reference
Some of these animals had elaborate costumes, rivalling in expensiveness those of their step-mothers. From Wordnik.com. [The Metropolis] Reference
Already I had begun to note the expensiveness of stamps, laundry work, omnibus fares, and such matters. From Wordnik.com. [The Message] Reference
The utility of articles valued for their beauty depends closely upon the expensiveness of the articles. From Wordnik.com. [Theory of the Leisure Class] Reference
Europe -- first in expensiveness, first in exclusiveness, first in that mysterious quality known as 'style'. From Wordnik.com. [The Grand Babylon Hotel] Reference
There is a studious exhibition of expensiveness coupled with a make-believe of simplicity and crude serviceability. From Wordnik.com. [Theory of the Leisure Class] Reference
The sight of them, the remembrance of what she had heard of the expensiveness of city carriages, nerved her to desperation. From Wordnik.com. [Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise] Reference
Another dubious point is Oswald's argument in the first act as to the expensiveness of marriage as compared with free union. From Wordnik.com. [Ghosts] Reference
Then Mr. Hawkins proceeded to furnish it with an expensiveness and extravagance of outlay quite in keeping with his former idiocy. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of the Argonauts] Reference
The bourse's price-earning ratio, a measure of expensiveness, was 13.15 times as on October 29 compared with 9.52 times a year ago. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The bourse's price-earning ratio, a measure of expensiveness, was 13.23 times as on October 22 compared with 10.50 times a year ago. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Constance protested against the expensiveness of the affair several times, but Sophia quietened her by sheer force of individuality. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Wives' Tale] Reference
His expensiveness is acknowledged even by himself, and his whole conduct declares that self-denial is a word hardly understood by him. From Wordnik.com. [Sense and Sensibility] Reference
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