| At the delicatessen he bought preposterous stores of food, chosen on the principle of expensiveness. |
| Then Mr. Hawkins proceeded to furnish it with an expensiveness and extravagance of outlay quite in keeping with his former idiocy. |
| She loved expensive things because she knew what their expensiveness meant. |
| On account of the expensiveness of butter, there are a number of substitutes sold, which go under the name of oleomargarine. |
| Another dubious point is Oswald's argument in the first act as to the expensiveness of marriage as compared with free union. |
| The expensiveness indicates to me simply that this object probably won't actually be used for the purpose it was made. |
