adverb
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cautiously; carefully
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sparingly
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Origin of 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
A genuine excitement was so rare in the little peaceful village that it had to be made to last, and rolled charily under the tongue like a sweet morsel.
From Pembroke A Novel by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
Without leaving the vestibule, Hobart Hitchin signaled it to wait for him; and then, ever so charily, he thrust forward his eagle eyes and directed their merciless beam through the side panel of the glass.
From In And Out by Edgar Franklin
Entering into the spirit of the chase Dudley knelt down and waited with poised stick while Laxdale charily opened the drawer.
From Wilmshurst of the Frontier Force by Ernest Prater
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