dispendious

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  1. Costly; expensive; extravagant; lavish: as, ‘a dispendious use of material may in the end be true economy.’ A. J. Beresford-Hope, Eng. Cathedrals, ii.

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  1. Latin dispendiosus, expensive, from dispendium, expense, loss, from dispendere, expend: see dispend.
 

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