charily
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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
"Come along, Mark Anthony," said Warrender, another lay helper, who after working for seven years among the poor had at last been charily accepted by the Bishop for ordination.
From The Altar Steps by Compton MacKenzie
I asked, the words coming slowly and charily.
From Sir Ludar A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess by Talbot Baines Reed
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 Wardon Allan Curtis
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