Antonym: cheap. Similar words: mostly, honestly, cost, costume, at any cost, at all costs, at the cost of, the cost of living. Meaning: ['kɒstlɪ] adj. 1. entailing great loss or sacrifice 2. having a high price.
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61. An all-out attack by a junior on a senior at a meeting is usually costly, especially if the junior member wins.
62. Any delay in the production process is costly to a company.
63. Economic returns can accrue when ambulatory nutrition care contributes to reducing the need for costly medical care.
64. Aundray Bruce committed the most costly one, on third-and-5 in the first quarter.
65. The defeat of Flown in the Smurfit Champion Hurdle proved costly for many punters.
66. All of these methods are extremely costly and frankly are not helping the initial cause of the problem.
67. The finance committee rejected their plan because they said it was too costly.
68. Rivers also flood(sentencedict.com), and such floods are sometimes very costly in terms of loss of life and destruction of property.
69. Several of the gifts were costly, including a cup of gold and a crystal salt-set.
70. This eliminated the need for costly lines that transmitted power or data.
71. Amgen also said it would pay for any human trials to test the drugs, a potentially costly expense.
72. Most lawyers spend most of their time helping clients prevent or resolve disputes, trying their best to avoid costly litigation.
73. A lawsuit would be costly and we would probably lose.
74. Dimas Teixeira's decision to stand off Beckham quickly proved costly.
75. The new laws support yearly renewable consumer choice, and at the same time reduce unnecessary and costly culinary options.
76. Not only have the alternatives proved too costly, they've also been too complicated to use.
77. Having just undertaken a costly bail-out of the thrifts and tightened regulations, it might seem that this problem is behind us.
78. Fortunately[sentencedict.com], my passengers spot it and we avoid delays and costly repairs.
79. Poisoning rats with warfarin reduces the damage but is costly and possibly damaging to the environment.
80. On the other hand a refractor is more costly, and in some ways less convenient to use.
81. It proclaims the burdens of pollution control regulation, displaying industry as suffocating under costly yet trivial constraints.
82. The assumption that large authorities are costly and bureaucratic is wrong, according to the Regional Council.
83. The arithmetic of compound interest is such that delays in making contributions to trust funds tend to be quite costly.
84. They were large, costly, rather unreliable and required a dedicated data processing team to support them.
85. In the case of automobiles, you have a choice of valuation methods, and choosing the wrong one can be costly.
86. Expanded IRAs for this higher-income group will give costly tax breaks to people who are already saving for retirement.
87. In the long run, persistent current account deficits are difficult and costly to sustain and are damaging to an economy.
88. That is where Missoni sells its wickedly costly sweaters, and those eye-catching scarves.
89. It is the most costly spectacle on earth and it can not be repeated again this century.
90. But the airline business is a cash-hungry one-and strikes are enormously costly.
More similar words: mostly, honestly, cost, costume, at any cost, at all costs, at the cost of, the cost of living, ecosystem, host, most, ghost, boost, at most, almost, poster, foster, hostile, post-war, hostage, partly, gently, softly, tightly, lightly, quietly, shortly, greatly, directly, slightly.