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
She had heard her speak casually, but charily, of having lived in Fordham.
From Ruth by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn
We, the children of the Puritans, and educated in their views and prejudices, have still many lessons to learn in the school of charily.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various
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 Tytler, Sarah
