What's the difference between costly and worthy?

Costly


Definition:

  • (a.) Of great cost; expensive; dear.
  • (a.) Gorgeous; sumptuous.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Simplicity, high capacity, low cost and label stability, combined with relatively high clinical sensitivity make the method suitable for cost effective screening of large numbers of samples.
  • (2) An effective graft-surveillance protocol needs to be applicable to all patients; practical in terms of time, effort, and cost; reliable; and able to detect, grade, and assess progression of lesions.
  • (3) In the bars of Antwerp and the cafes of Bruges, the talk is less of Christmas markets and hot chocolate than of the rising cost of financing a national debt which stands at 100% of annual national income.
  • (4) Issues such as healthcare and the NHS, food banks, energy and the general cost of living were conspicuous by their absence.
  • (5) In choosing between various scanning techniques the factors to be considered include availability, cost, the type of equipment, the expertise of the medical and technical staff, and the inherent capabilities of the system.
  • (6) In documents due to be published by the bank, it will signal a need to shed costs from a business that employs 10,000 people as it scrambles to return to profit.
  • (7) This study examines the costs of screening patients for alcohol problems.
  • (8) A recent visit by a member of Iraq's government from Baghdad to Basra and back cost about $12,000 (£7,800), the cable claimed.
  • (9) It ignores the reduction in the wider, non-NHS cost of adult mental illness such as benefit payments and forgone tax, calculated by the LSE report as £28bn a year.
  • (10) There was a 35% decrease in the number of patients seeking emergency treatment and one study put the savings in economic and social costs at just under £7m a year .
  • (11) Environment groups Environment groups that have strongly backed low-carbon power have barely wavered in their opposition to nuclear in the last decade, although their arguments now are now much about the cost than the danger it might pose.
  • (12) From the social economic point of view nosocomial infections represent a very important cost factor, which could be reduced to great deal by activities for prevention of nosocomial infection.
  • (13) The stepped approach is cost-effective and provides an objective basis for decisions and priority setting.
  • (14) Failure to develop an adequate resource will be costly in the long run.
  • (15) The method is implemented with a digital non-causal (zero-phase shift) filter, based on the convolution with a finite impulse response, to make the computation time compatible with the use of low-cost microcomputers.
  • (16) Cost-effective immunoassays for the detection of amphetamines, benzodiazepines, and methadone in urine have been developed using Syva EMIT reagents and a Cobas Bio centrifugal analyser.
  • (17) Total costs of building the three missile destroyers in Australia will amount to more than $9bn, approximately three times the cost of buying the ships ready made from Spanish company Navantia, The Australian reported on Friday .
  • (18) For the non-emergency admissions, the low-load physicians' patients had an average LOS that was 56.2% greater and an average hospital cost that was 58.3% greater than were the LOS and cost of the patients of the high-load physicians.
  • (19) The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that the problems which arise from simultaneously developing regulatory and competitive approaches to health care cost containment can be solved, if recognized, and that those problems deserve more systematic investigation than they have so far received.
  • (20) But that gross margin only includes the cost of paying drivers as a cost of revenue, classifying everything else, such as operations, R&D, and sales and marketing, as “operating expenses”.

Worthy


Definition:

  • (n.) Having worth or excellence; possessing merit; valuable; deserving; estimable; excellent; virtuous.
  • (n.) Having suitable, adapted, or equivalent qualities or value; -- usually with of before the thing compared or the object; more rarely, with a following infinitive instead of of, or with that; as, worthy of, equal in excellence, value, or dignity to; entitled to; meriting; -- usually in a good sense, but sometimes in a bad one.
  • (n.) Of high station; of high social position.
  • (n.) A man of eminent worth or value; one distinguished for useful and estimable qualities; a person of conspicuous desert; -- much used in the plural; as, the worthies of the church; political worthies; military worthies.
  • (v. t.) To render worthy; to exalt into a hero.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The new technique of HFCA is worthy of further development.
  • (2) To confront this evil – and defeat it, standing together for our values, for our security, for our prosperity.” Merkel gave a strong endorsement of Cameron’s reform strategy, saying that Britain’s demands were “not just understandable, but worthy of support”.
  • (3) He told FA.com: “In my opinion, we were worthy winners.
  • (4) Actually, I think these are worthy subjects for discussion but, unfortunately, we don't have the time.
  • (5) Also worthy of consideration is the intensity of the outer layers of the synthetic grafts whose organization may have been compromised to some extent in favor of an improved patency ratio, particularly in recent years.
  • (6) In current practice, some of the goals cannot be met; they should be considered as targets worthy of achievement, not as inflexible criteria of acceptance or rejection of methods.
  • (7) It was worthy to be mentioned that both the incidence and mortality rate of NPC were relatively stable in 1970-1984.
  • (8) The Pucci Saturday night show was a fairly typical glamorous display with op art prints, 70s shapes and jetset-worthy wafty dresses – all the things Dundas has done so successfully – worn by supermodels including Eva Herzigova, Karie Kloss, Joan Smalls and Natasha Poly.
  • (9) He asked Cameron to write to Bawtree to say he believed the idea was worthy of endorsement.
  • (10) For here we see the depravity to which man can sink, the barbarity that unfolds when we begin to see our fellow human beings as somehow less than us, less worthy of dignity and life; we see how evil can, for a moment in time, triumph when good people do nothing."
  • (11) The Sounders’ season has been popularly characterized by the Dempsey-Martins partnership — and the MVP-worthy form of the latter in particular.
  • (12) A minimally invasive surgical technique is proposed which considerably simplifies the Stamey technique, shortens the surgical time and fives a weighted success rate of over 80%, which makes it worthy of consideration in treating female urinary incontinence.
  • (13) Nursing is therefore, a profession worthy of respect, that which has a unique function of curing and assisting individuals, families and community:- sick or well to reach whole completeness or independency.
  • (14) 3.22pm BST Mr Burnham’s suggestion is a worthy addition to all the rest – the mobile phone charges, the annexation of Faslane, embassies refusing to hold whisky receptions!
  • (15) The result is worthy of comparison to the winsome Americana that Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra put out in the late 60s.
  • (16) In this regard the role played by statistical methods appears to be specially worthy of consideration, so as to define the capabilities of a given surveillance system in identifying increasing risks.
  • (17) I work with a pacifist organisation; I don’t want to feel like I have to prove to everyone that I am worthy of being a member of this society when I have contributed so much.” Members of Amnesty International attended the peaceful demonstration, which drew little attention from the police.
  • (18) In carcinoma of the rectum occurring in patients in whom surgery represents a high risk, the problem of local treatment is worthy of discussion in certain precisely defined cases.
  • (19) A further three sites were examined, at Druridge Bay in Northumberland, Kingsnorth in Kent and Owston Ferry in South Yorkshire, and although "worthy of consideration", have been rejected for now.
  • (20) Using worthy contributions of the systemic theories, the authors analyze the ambiguity of such a request and the paradox underlying it, namely, to take care of a "normal" family crisis.

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