charily

Now they stretched themselves out on their elbows and began to puff, charily, and with slender confidence.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete|Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
O beauties, look to your busk-points; if not chastely, yet charily: be sure the door be bolted.
The Works of John Marston|John Marston
She had heard her speak casually, but charily, of having lived in Fordham.
Ruth|Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
He went and knocked, and, behold, the door was promptly but charily opened.
The Flaming Sword in Serbia and Elsewhere|Mabel Annie Boulton Stobart

It is not a difficult task to praise a heroine, and one that should be indulged in but charily.
Coniston, Complete|Winston Churchill

British Dictionary definitions for charily

charily

/ (ˈtʃɛərɪlɪ) /

adverb

cautiously; carefully

sparingly

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