The word 'hefty' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to something that is large in size, weight, or quantity. For example: "The hefty backpack made it difficult to climb the stairs."
Instead, a hefty chunk of the increase in consumption in recent decades has been the result of higher housing prices, the rising cost of medical care, more spending on education, and childcare.
That is a hefty hit on people living on very low incomes.
But entering any such "debt workout" would inevitably come with a hefty dose of political humiliation and stringent conditions attached.
The options, they were informed, were to implant them, offer them for donation to another couple, pay the hefty annual storage fee or have them destroyed.
Although Labour took a hefty 44% of last week's general election vote in Greater London compared with the Conservatives' 35%, that by no means assures a mayoral victory.
It's not hard to guess one outcome of Sainsbury's deliberations: either capital expenditure or the dividend will have to be cut, and a hefty slice from both is the likely pragmatic course.
It certainly has a hefty carbon footprint – with some reports estimating around 82.8g of CO2 for a half-litre bottle – not insignificant when everyone's drinking it.
As for the gold Apple Watch, the hefty price tag doesn't seem to have put off buyers.
Spurred by a sense of injustice and disappointment, she has spent six years writing a hefty tome which she claims is the "true story" and is pursuing so far fruitless legal battles.
The European commission paved the way for Greece to begin debt relief talks with its creditors by announcing that the country had been left with a surplus of about €1.5bn (£1.2bn) last year, or 0.8% of national output,once its hefty debt payments and the cost of recapitalising its banks had been stripped out.
The discovery of over 700m barrels of oil came with a hefty price tag – $700m for the single northernmost well in the world – but for Exxon it was ultimately short-lived.
