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
The uniform, when it appeared, was frequently a coarse homespun gray, charily trimmed with red worsted, and stained with the rains and earth of the islands.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861 by Various
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 Booth Tarkington
He knew McKinstry's thought of that little girl well enough, but he held the child-hearted man's secret tenderly and charily in his hand.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 by Various
