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
"Don't get up your expectations, it's not much," he said, charily, "but it's something to start on."
From The Iron Woman by Deland, Margaret Wade Campbell
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
Comfort seems to have been supplied most charily in the construction of this official chair; but there was a fine touch of morality in giving uneasiness to the seat of unlimited power.
From The Comic History of Rome by Becket, Gilbert Abbott ?
