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Definition of Costly

Costly
Costly Cost"ly (k?st"l?; 115), a. [From Cost expense.] 1. Of great cost; expensive; dear. He had fitted up his palace in the most costly and sumptuous style, for the accomodation of the princess. --Prescott. 2. Gorgeous; sumptuous. [Poetic.] To show how costly summer was at hand. --Shak.

Meaning of Costly from wikipedia

- Costly may refer to: Wikipedia:COSTLY Anthony Costly (born 1954), Honduran footballer Carlo Costly (born 1982), Honduran footballer Marcel Costly (born...
- Carlo Yaír Costly Molina (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈkaɾlo ˈkostli]; born 18 July 1982) is a Honduran professional footballer who plays as a striker for...
- The handicap principle suggests that secondary ****ual characteristics are costly signals which must be reliable, as they cost the signaller resources that...
- Costly signaling theory in evolutionary psychology refers to uses of costly signaling theory and adaptationism in explanations for psychological traits...
- Costly Colours, sometimes just called Costly, is an historical English card game for two players and a "fascinating relative of cribbage". The game "requires...
- January 2009. Retrieved 9 December 2008. "Central Texas Hailstorms were Costly - The Insurance Council of Texas". Archived from the original on 19 February...
- men, hunting of large game animals, and costly religious rituals, finding that these appear to qualify as costly honest signals. When animals choose mating...
- Costly State Verification (CSV) is an approach in contract theory that considers a contract design problem in which verification (or disclosure) of enterprise...
- Her Costly Affair is a 1996 American made-for-television thriller film directed by John Patterson. The film was initially to be released as Consensual...
- positions of players on the board. Both cribbage and its close relative costly colours are descended from the old English card game of noddy. Cribbage...