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

Dealt out charily, was the fair comb to the gratified little ones, Or, to fermentation yielded, producing the spirited metheglin.

From Man of Uz, and Other Poems by Sigourney, Lydia Howard

I have had read to me of nights some of Sir Walter’s Scotch Novels; Waverley, Rob, Midlothian, now the Antiquary: eking them out as charily as I may. 

From Letters of Edward FitzGerald in Two Volumes Vol. II by Wright, William Aldis

Mr. Merwyn employed his power charily, however, or rather with principle.

From An Original Belle by Roe, Edward Payson