charily
Example Sentences
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Over the years, actors have charily avoided filling that blank.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
The time was past for advice, instruction, or suggestion, unless in private, and even then it would be charily and warily given by the sensible, modest mother of a Queen.
From Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 1 by Sarah Tytler
He came with his arm in a sling, and told her charily that he had hurt his elbow through dropping his stick and slipping downstairs.
From The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett
A genuine excitement was so rare in the little peaceful village that it had to be made to last, and rolled charily under the tongue like a sweet morsel.
From Pembroke A Novel by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
