Costliness is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for COSTLINESS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the state of being costly
• The quality of being costy; expensiveness; sumptuousness.
• the quality possessed by something with a great price or value
ADJECTIVE:
• causing suffering, loss, or disadvantage
• costing a lot; expensive
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• commanding a high price especially because of intrinsic worth; rich, splendid

Words related to COSTLINESS

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Words that contain COSTLINESS

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How to use COSTLINESS in a sentence

• Among the presents offered him, that of Gawhar was especially splendid, and its costliness illustrates the colossal wealth acquired by the Fatimites.
• Some twenty servants in the imperial livery served the table which was furnished with truly royal profusion and costliness.
• All day long, each day, vans were thundering up to the rear doors of Windrift, each van loaded to bursting with new and magnificent, if not beautiful costliness.
• Each one exceeded the other in splendor and costliness.
• Both had the same dominant ambition to be distinguished and imitated, as the arbiters of fashion in dress for the costliness, splendour, or novelty of their toilet.
• Julia cared for nothing because it was pretty or tasteful, but chose every thing by its costliness and magnificence.
• Her white satin dress was cut and fashioned in a style which he was beginning to appreciate as evidence of skill and costliness.
• It is distinguished for the size, costliness, and grandeur of its monuments.
• Judson in a letter to a friend, mentions the splendor and costliness of some of the religious offerings, one of which cost three thousand tickals, or twelve hundred dollars.
• But the costliness of the materials, the richness and variety of the details, amply compensated for the moderate dimensions of the building.
• To the Costliness of Ornament, he added all the Graces and Decorum of it.
• If not by its costliness, at all events by its dimensions, it was apt to throw all other church furniture into the shade.
• In beauty of design and costliness they surpass any similar collection in the New World, but in one respect they are like all others, for they speak nothing but good of the dead.
• He will go back to a humble and simple dwelling not exceeding in costliness that of many a Massachusetts merchant or farmer.
• The stranger is continually astonished at the magnitude and costliness of these residences.
• These chambers were adorned with vases, sculptures, and paintings on the walls, varying in costliness and style according to the means or taste of the builder.
• The alarming costliness of the gift caused talk in the green-room.
• On the other hand, mere costliness does not constitute the soul of a present.
• This he attributed to the absurd costliness, as he considered it, of the style in which the work was brought out.
• The heavy silken curtains fell drooping with their costliness to the velvet carpet, and a faint, sickening odor of withering water lilies pervaded the close atmosphere.
• They observed a medium between costliness and sordidness.
• The costliness, discomforts, and miserable ill-success of this expedition, while they occasioned clamor in the camp, sharpened the discontents existing at the capital.

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