Meaning & use
spendy
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Informal term meaning expensive or costly.
See it in a sentence
That new restaurant downtown is pretty spendy for a casual lunch.
The renovation turned out spendier than they had budgeted for.
A note on using this word
Spendy is regional American slang, especially common in the Pacific Northwest, and is rarely used in formal writing.
Words with a similar meaning
priceycostly
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Words with an opposite meaning
cheap
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