Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Costly; expensive; extravagant; lavish: as, ‘a dispendious use of material may in the end be true economy.’
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Examples
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An income of 6000 francs (£240) represents ease if not affluence; with double the amount you can "aspire to a duchess," and even the dispendious Irish-French
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889
whichbe commented on the word dispendious
Extravagant; expensive. (from Phrontistery)
May 24, 2008