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

He recognised in sufficient time that he must deal very charily and cautiously with customs which had all the force of law, and he withdrew his order.

From Rulers of India: Akbar by Malleson, George Bruce

Whatever the creature was, she had slid down, forming a limp lump at the end of the bag, when he charily deposited it on the floor and turned to consult his dictionary before untying it.

From The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton by Curtis, Wardon Allan

Bibbs learned he must walk charily among these—he must wear a thousand eyes and beware of spiders indeed!

From The Turmoil, a novel by Tarkington, Booth