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   Expensive (?), a.
   1. Occasioning expense; calling for liberal outlay; costly; dear; liberal; as, “expensive dress; an expensive house or family.”
   
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   War is expensive, and peace desirable. Burke.
   
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   2. Free in expending; very liberal; especially, in a bad sense: extravagant; lavish. [R.]
   
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   An active, expensive, indefatigable goodness. Sprat.
   
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   The idle and expensive are dangerous. Sir W. Temple.
   
   Syn. -- Costly; dear; high-priced; lavish; extravagant.
   
   -- Ex*pen"sive*ly, adv. -- Ex*pen"sive*ness, n.
   
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