Definition of costly

"costly" in the adjective sense

1. dearly-won, costly

entailing great loss or sacrifice

"a dearly-won victory"

2. costly, dear, high-priced, pricey, pricy

having a high price

"costly jewelry"

"high-priced merchandise"

"much too dear for my pocketbook"

"a pricey restaurant"

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Quotations for costly

Agree, for the law is costly. [ Proverb ]

Display is as false as it is costly. [ Franklin ]

The most magnificent and costly dome.
Is but an upper chamber to a tomb;
No spot on earth but has supplied a grave,
And human skulls the spacious ocean pave. [ Young ]

Expense of time is the most costly of all expenses. [ Theophrastus ]

Pride requires very costly food - its keeper's happiness. [ Colton ]

Costly followers are not to be liked, lest while a man maketh his train longer, he make his wings shorter. [ Bacon ]

Excess in apparel is another costly folly. The very trimming of the vain world would clothe all the naked one. [ William Penn ]

Truth is to be costly to you - of labour and patience; and you are never to sell it, but to guard and to give. [ John Ruskin ]

Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, but not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy; for the apparel oft proclaims the man. [ William Shakespeare ]

The chief pleasure (in eating) does not consist in costly seasoning or exquisite flavor, but in yourself. Do you seek for sauce by sweating. [ Horace ]

costly in Scrabble®

The word costly is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 11

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters costly:

COSTLY
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All Scrabble® Plays For The Word costly

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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In costly

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costly in Words With Friends™

The word costly is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 12

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters costly:

COSTLY
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All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word costly

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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In costly

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Words within the letters of costly

2 letter words in costly (3 words)

3 letter words in costly (9 words)

4 letter words in costly (13 words)

5 letter words in costly (3 words)

6 letter words in costly (1 word)

costly + 1 blank (2 words)

Words containing the sequence costly

Words that start with costly (1 word)

Words with costly in them (1 word)

Words that end with costly (3 words)

Word Growth involving costly

Shorter words in costly

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Longer words containing costly

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