as in expensive
commanding a large price
Seattle is generally credited with transforming coffee from a workaday drink to a trendy and spendy beverage
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Recent Examples of spendy
At $37, the roll is pretty spendy, considering the scant lobster on the bun.
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Rachel Bernhard, jsonline.com, 7 July 2025
For a less spendy sleep solution, this $85 pillow from Coop Home Goods is a favorite among multiple staffers and is backed by more than 46,000 Amazon five-star reviews.
—Nashia Baker, Architectural Digest, 13 June 2025
Many brunch recipes call for eggs, which are still hovering on the spendy side.
—Nicole Hvidsten, Boston Herald, 16 Apr. 2025
However, Rosewood Baha Mar is arguably the most elegant, drawing a more discerning and spendy crowd.
—Denny Lee, Travel + Leisure, 5 Apr. 2025
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Rachel Bernhard, jsonline.com, 7 July 2025
For a less spendy sleep solution, this $85 pillow from Coop Home Goods is a favorite among multiple staffers and is backed by more than 46,000 Amazon five-star reviews.
—Nashia Baker, Architectural Digest, 13 June 2025
Many brunch recipes call for eggs, which are still hovering on the spendy side.
—Nicole Hvidsten, Boston Herald, 16 Apr. 2025
However, Rosewood Baha Mar is arguably the most elegant, drawing a more discerning and spendy crowd.
—Denny Lee, Travel + Leisure, 5 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for spendy
Adjective
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Zettel then decided renting a hotel room for the night would be too expensive and let her daughter sleep in her car instead.—
David Clarey,
jsonline.com,
27 Oct. 2025
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In the aftermath of the expensive blunder, Schwarzman was quickly pulled aside by an investor.—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
27 Oct. 2025
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Even Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI—the world’s most valuable private company—recently echoed that sentiment after becoming a father.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
28 Oct. 2025
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These were mysterious and valuable.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Oct. 2025
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If proven at scale, this technique could shift how nations approach soil restoration – moving away from costly cleanup projects toward systems that regenerate from within.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
24 Oct. 2025
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Known as one of the costliest wars in history, the death of hundreds of thousands of soldiers has been attributed to battle, as well as starvation, cold and a typhus epidemic that broke out.—
Taylor Nicioli,
CNN Money,
24 Oct. 2025
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“Spendy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spendy. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.
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