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
That was the hill outside of Jerusalem which the guide-books rather charily mention as "Gordon's Calvary," because General Gordon once visited it and accepted it as the true place of the Crucifixion.
From The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise by Albert Bigelow Paine
Entering into the spirit of the chase Dudley knelt down and waited with poised stick while Laxdale charily opened the drawer.
From Wilmshurst of the Frontier Force by Ernest Prater
I peeped out as charily as a jailer.
From Cupid's Middleman by Edward B. Lent
