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

Now they stretched themselves out on their elbows and began to puff, charily, and with slender confidence.

From The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 4. by Twain, Mark

The uniform, when it appeared, was frequently a coarse homespun gray, charily trimmed with red worsted, and stained with the rains and earth of the islands.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861 by Various

You felt instinctively that he was one who would take life seriously—perhaps a little too seriously—and that, whether it brought him joy or sorrow, he would admit the world but charily to his confidence.

From Nature's Serial Story by Roe, Edward Payson