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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Comfort seems to have been supplied most charily in the construction of this official chair; but there was a fine touch of morality in giving uneasiness to the seat of unlimited power.
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Now listen," he said slowly and impressively as if he was speaking to a child, "we've both got to go very charily.
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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.
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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.
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The Greek females led exceedingly retired lives, being far more charily admitted to a share of the recreations of the nobler sex than we of these privileged days.
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