Definition of Expensive

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Expensive

Occasioning expense; calling for liberal outlay; costly; dear; liberal; as, expensive dress; an expensive house or family.

Free in expending; very liberal; especially, in a bad scene; extravagant; lavish.

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Expensive Quotations

I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.
Warren Buffett

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.
Benjamin Franklin

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
Will Rogers

Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.'
Peter Drucker

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.
Oscar Wilde

Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it.
Stephen Leacock

Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.
Emily Dickinson

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
James A. Baldwin

A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams

Expensive Translations

expensive in Afrikaans is duur
expensive in Dutch is kostbaar, dierbaar, lief, duur, waard
expensive in Finnish is kallis
expensive in German is teuer, teuer, kostspielig
expensive in Italian is caro, costoso
expensive in Latin is carus
expensive in Norwegian is kostbar, dyr
expensive in Portuguese is caro
expensive in Spanish is caro, costoso
expensive in Swedish is dyr

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