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

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

Without leaving the vestibule, Hobart Hitchin signaled it to wait for him; and then, ever so charily, he thrust forward his eagle eyes and directed their merciless beam through the side panel of the glass.

From In And Out by Franklin, Edgar, [pseud.]

Indeed, I had not been three weeks in the country before I decided upon accepting no more invitations, even charily as they were made.

From Diary in America, Series One by Marryat, Frederick