adverb
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cautiously; carefully
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sparingly
Other Word Forms
- uncharily adverb
Etymology
Origin of charily
Example Sentences
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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
Over the years, actors have charily avoided filling that blank.
From Time Magazine Archive
You felt instinctively that he was one who would take life seriously—perhaps a little too seriously—and that, whether it brought him joy or sorrow, he would admit the world but charily to his confidence.
From Nature's Serial Story by Roe, Edward Payson
I asked, the words coming slowly and charily.
From Sir Ludar A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess by Reed, Talbot Baines
In lieu, they carry in one corner of their craniums, a drop or two of attar of roses; charily used, the supply being small.
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Melville, Herman
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