charily

Example Sentences

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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

Whatever the creature was, she had slid down, forming a limp lump at the end of the bag, when he charily deposited it on the floor and turned to consult his dictionary before untying it.

From The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton by Curtis, Wardon Allan

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

Now they stretched themselves out on their elbows and began to puff, charily, and with slender confidence.

From The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 4. by Twain, Mark