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

But while Waldemar rubbed his head in cogitatation and the Honorable William Linder, in his Brooklyn headquarters, breathed charily, out of respect to his creaking rib, Average Jones was following fate northward.

From Average Jones by Adams, Samuel Hopkins

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

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 Prater, Ernest