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

For somewhat the same reason he had sought Pocahontas, charily at first, dreading disappointment, but finally, as his interest deepened, without reserve.

From Princess by McClelland, M. G. (Mary Greenway)

Tito was sorry for him, and advanced charily, his heart full of sympathy.

From Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California by Bonner, Geraldine

The spring-time holds her white and purple dear; October, lavish, flaunts them far and near; The summer charily her reds doth lay Like jewels on her costliest array; October, scornful, burns them on a bier.

From A Calendar of Sonnets by Jackson, Helen Hunt