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

He came with his arm in a sling, and told her charily that he had hurt his elbow through dropping his stick and slipping downstairs.

From The Old Wives' Tale by Bennett, Arnold

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

"Don't get up your expectations, it's not much," he said, charily, "but it's something to start on."

From The Iron Woman by Deland, Margaret Wade Campbell