expensively
advUS /ɛkˈspɛn.sɪv.li/
Etymology From expensive + -ly.
1
In an expensive manner.
- Customers are usually enticed in with a "ducat", or pass for one free dance; after that it costs them ten cents a time. I can work out expensively, particularly with the heightened tempo of war.1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 88:
- The room was expensively furnished.1965, James Holledge, What Makes a Call Girl?, London: Horwitz Publications, page 77: