Costlier [adjective]

Definition of Costlier:

expensive

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Sentence/Example of Costlier:

The increased use of linen paper in place of the costlier parchment helped in the popularization of letters.

The bazaars are not roofed; and here also the costlier portion of the wares is kept under lock and key.

The woman had some features that would be called noble if they were worn in connection with costlier apparel.

I wish your potters sought nothing costlier, and dug in their own grounds for it.

But hard and costly as the Dutch war had proved, a far graver and costlier struggle seemed opening in its train.

The material principally used in the costlier modes of embalming appears to have been asphalt; wax was more rarely employed.

Though he rarely bought wine, he often bought a costlier drink—laudanum, for his own drinking.

The silk we employ for our costlier fabrics is of the kind which we import from Piedmont and the southern provinces of France.

Heriot immediately answered that if the King would come and visit him he would show him a costlier fire.

Competition and the costlier working of the tin-mines have caused many of them to be abandoned.