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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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
We, the children of the Puritans, and educated in their views and prejudices, have still many lessons to learn in the school of charily.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various
But while Waldemar rubbed his head in cogitatation and the Honorable William Linder, in his Brooklyn headquarters, breathed charily, out of respect to his creaking rib, Average Jones was following fate northward.
From Average Jones by Adams, Samuel Hopkins
She had heard her speak casually, but charily, of having lived in Fordham.
From Ruth by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn
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