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

Our fast train stops at the mouth of a tunnel, then crawls ahead charily, for the French, before retreating, dynamited the tunnel.

From The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol 1, Issue 4, January 23, 1915 by Various

"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

He employed leading motives charily, and as he disliked intricate polyphony, his music moves in massive blocks, following the semi-detached tableaux of the opera.

From Ivory Apes and Peacocks by Huneker, James