costly
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costly (kôst′lē, käst′-)
Related Forms:
- costliness cost′·li·ness noun
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Modifying Another Word
- prohibitively: By 1812 only one volume of Willan's Cutaneous Diseases had appeared as the colored engravings were proving prohibitively costly.
Infinitive complement
- administer: Book prizes are the least costly to administer, because literary judges are the least well paid and work from home.
Modifies a noun
- mistake: This is a costly mistake I have seen several clients fall foul of in recent times.
Used with adjective complement
- prove: Just like last week's game, missed free throws proved costly in both halves of the match.
Preposition: in
- term: But it will be costly in terms of time and money.
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