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 Lydia Howard Sigourney
I asked, the words coming slowly and charily.
From Sir Ludar A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess by Talbot Baines Reed
In lieu, they carry in one corner of their craniums, a drop or two of attar of roses; charily used, the supply being small.
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Herman Melville
