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

That was the hill outside of Jerusalem which the guide-books rather charily mention as "Gordon's Calvary," because General Gordon once visited it and accepted it as the true place of the Crucifixion.

From The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise by Paine, Albert Bigelow

Indeed, I had not been three weeks in the country before I decided upon accepting no more invitations, even charily as they were made.

From Diary in America, Series One by Marryat, Frederick

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