charily

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House of Representatives, was its foremost parliamentarian, and had performed a considerable public service as an Appropriations Committee chairman who spent the taxpayers' money as charily as if it were his own.

From Time Magazine Archive

Over the years, actors have charily avoided filling that blank.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dealt out charily, was the fair comb to the gratified little ones, Or, to fermentation yielded, producing the spirited metheglin.

From Man of Uz, and Other Poems by Sigourney, Lydia Howard

I asked, the words coming slowly and charily.

From Sir Ludar A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess by Reed, Talbot Baines

Tito was sorry for him, and advanced charily, his heart full of sympathy.

From Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California by Bonner, Geraldine