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charily

[chair-uh-lee] / ˈtʃɛər ə li /


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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

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

I asked, the words coming slowly and charily.

From Sir Ludar A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess by Talbot Baines Reed

"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 Margaret Wade Campbell Deland




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