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

He knew McKinstry's thought of that little girl well enough, but he held the child-hearted man's secret tenderly and charily in his hand.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 by Various

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

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

From An Original Belle by Roe, Edward Payson