Costly is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for COSTLY in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• expensive
• costing a lot; expensive
• causing suffering, loss, or disadvantage
• Of great cost; expensive; dear.
• Gorgeous; sumptuous.
• entailing great loss or sacrifice
• having a high price

Words related to COSTLY

costlier10 costliest11 costliness12 dearbought17 expensive21

Words that contain COSTLY

uncostly13

How to use COSTLY in a sentence

• They last for half a lifetime, and are not costly at the outset.
• These collars were easy for the horse, and served the purpose of the more costly leather collar.
• Then the priest and the people built a costly shrine and placed her in it, and there the people used to go and ask her to intercede for them.
• One was a costly artificial flower, the other a real garden rose.
• He purchased it as early in life as he could raise the means, and displayed it in his parlor as an attractive and costly ornament.
• It was in the royal army and the government that fatigue and the desire of putting a stop to a struggle so costly and of such doubtful issue first began to be manifested.
• As shield-thong there served a costly band upon which lay jewels green as grass.
• Birds in cages are hung about it, and a sweet voice, singing within, tells us that the lodge is the cage of a more costly bird.
• A costly manuscript of Theocritus was tumbled in disorder on the floor.
• These articles were costly then and they would be costly now, and very often quite as useless as costly.
• Conducted under the best circumstances for success, it involves a good deal that is costly.
• Their room was always bright and fragrant with the most costly flowers, and not a wish did they express but Howard was eager to gratify it.
• It contained eighty soldiers, armed in the Danish style, with weapons of the most highly-finished and costly construction.
• They went into the little parlor, where hung the great carved wooden crucifix, which was said to be the most costly in the town, with the exception of the one in the church.
• Already the painter had gone far beyond his means in filling his own house with costly works of art.
• Personal paragraphs will be relegated to some obscure and costly corner next to the births, deaths, and marriages.
• In parts of South America, where land costs nothing, cattle can be kept for their bones, tallow, and hides, but where food is costly we must make better use of it.
• She told them this in triumph and well she might, it being the winter after the war when New York apartments were as scarce as black diamonds and twice as costly.
• He took far more pleasure and interest in the details of these few rooms than in any of his own houses and costly possessions.
• Just in proportion as these natural means of transportation are lacking, is the need to build costly artificial means of transportation.
• The paper speaks of her beauty, her magnificent dress and costly jewels.
• Sieglinde, his queen-mother, would oftimes dress her little son in costly garments and lead him by the hand before the proud, strong men-at-arms who stood before the castle walls.
• The horse was decorated with great and costly profusion.
• They are toys, and it seems rather flat to have toys so cumbrous and so costly.
• Suppose it conceded that this protection is at first costly.
• The experiments are costly, but there is no other way of getting results.

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