Definition of Costly

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Definition of Costly
	Costly Of great cost; expensive; dear. Gorgeous; sumptuous. Related Definitions: Cost, Dear, Expensive, Gorgeous, Great, Of, Sumptuous

Costly Quotations

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.
Aldous Huxley

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
H. L. Mencken

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
William Penn

It's hard to find a way forward. When you're 18 it happens in huge chunks every day, but after 20 years, growth is much more costly.
James Taylor

Furniture manufacturing in plastics requires very costly machinery, which the Danish market is not big enough to justify. Or so they say. But show me a plastics manufacturer who dares to take on the experiment.
Arne Jacobsen

Morality is a private and costly luxury.
Henry B. Adams

As costly as it was in the lives of our men and women in uniform, in military assets, and in esteem and pride, Pearl Harbor was a watershed moment for America.
Joe Baca

That surely must be a concern to anyone who decides this drug must be given to stop transmissions, again from mother to child, which is extremely costly and must be taken into account.
Thabo Mbeki

It can get a little costly if you try and leave it until then to write songs. But you're writing all the time. You're collecting songs. I've had songs that have been collected over a two-year period for my next record.
Keith Urban

The entire American media apparatus bought into the drug war - which is an enormously damaging and costly undertaking for this country - and there wasn't enough critical reporting about it and that's why it's gotten out of hand.
David Talbot

Costly Translations

costly in Afrikaans is waardevol, duur
costly in Dutch is kostbaar, waardevol
costly in German is kostspielig, kostspielig, aufwendig
costly in Italian is caro, costoso
costly in Norwegian is dyr
costly in Portuguese is caro
costly in Spanish is costoso
costly in Swedish is kostsam, kostbar, dyrbar

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