gingerly

Once the excavator moved away, the Red Cross workers stepped gingerly onto the mound of rubble, their backs stooped as they examined what remained of lives lived in what had been seven apartments.

Every line of dialogue falls gingerly from Jolie’s lips as if it were uttered by a happy mistake.

He walked off the field under his own power, but walked gingerly back to the clubhouse as a hush fell upon a sellout crowd.

So I turned the knob and gingerly walked in.

Before Biden and Trump, the media tended to treat the mental fitness of would-be presidents gingerly.