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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151. In addition to these considerations of Layfield, the collection of the tax should not be excessively costly or present substantial new administrative problems.
152. Moreover, creating large bodies of worthwhile intellectual property is a specialised and costly business.
153. However, all this makes the Rolls a more costly proposition if it needs repairing.
154. Economically, the care of AIDS patients will put a tremendous strain on our already overburdened and costly health care delivery system.
155. Boeing Learns a Lesson in Predictability Mass layoffs prove costly in upswing when workers have taken skills(http://Sentencedict.com), loyalty elsewhere.
156. In early experiments I actually used Guinness in the dough but it is too costly.
157. The promised long-term care coverage is a primary reason the system is criticized as too costly for its budget.
158. Aside from being a costly super weapon during an era of Pentagon cutbacks, the F-22 has serious competition.
159. Caring for the park's swans is a costly business - roughly $26,600 per year.
160. In the old days, signing up and connecting a new customer in a medium-sized city would be a costly exercise.
161. Training for partners and staff is necessary and costly although important in an increasingly competitive market.
162. The failure to stock merchandise that matches customer demand can be extremely costly.
163. Some of these ISPs have tried to cancel contracts with spammers, but revocation can be costly.
164. Reprocessing is becoming an increasingly costly item in the fuel cycle of Britain's ageing Magnox reactors.
165. Maximum use of state-of-the-art technology in place of costly and often error-prone personnel.
166. However, historical reviews of business failure rates show that the incidence of new product failure is very high and costly.
167. The period of costly childhood dependency was further lengthened by the introduction of compulsory education from 1880.
168. Internet access is a costly business to run, so revenue has to come from somewhere.
169. The record shows a tendency to make a couple of kinds of particularly costly mistakes.
170. Indeed, the 1996 campaign season is headed for the history books as the most costly in history.
171. Treatment efforts in general are not very successful. Child abuse and neglect continue despite early, thoughtful, and often costly intervention.
172. A string of personal disasters culminated in a costly court appearance for wrecking a taxi after a night out.
173. Before its completion, there was a greater requirement for a lighter and less costly tank.
174. But new designs, which do without costly transformers, have trimmed prices.
175. These cases are too costly and too risky for most lawyers and most litigants.
176. A good frame-maker can keep you from making costly mistakes, says Gelay, such as putting Plexiglas over charcoal.
177. Vacant possession will be delayed and will prove costly, if not virtually impossible, to obtain.
178. Like divorce, it is painful and sometimes very costly to buy out a hostile partner.
179. Punitive damages potentially could be much more costly to cigarette companies than compensatory damages.
180. Ridding his stables of a harmful bacteria cocktail has been a long and costly process for Berwickshire trainer James Adam.
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