chary
He only comes charily to conclusions.
People might look charily at a novel written by a football player.
Economists have been charily watching the housing market.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Cautious and vigilant
abundance
an abundance of cautionidiom
askance
attentive
attentively
diligent
diligent about something/doing something
discreet
due diligence
gingerly
meticulousness
mindful
minutely
narrowly
once
semi-conservative
slowly
snuffly
super-cautious
super-conservative

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Doubt & ambivalence

Examples of charily

charily
They ate the expensive grapes charily.
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The ayatollah approached this entire exercise extremely charily.
From The Atlantic
Now they stretched themselves out on their elbows and began to puff, charily, and with slender confidence.
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On the landward side of the bleak house, crimson-rambler roses were luxuriant, and a stiff shell-bordered garden gave charily of small marigolds.
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I should advise the reader to indulge in the dwarfs very charily, and chiefly as a source of fairly profitable amusement.
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One wants affection from her daughtah--not charily!
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In lieu, they carry in one corner of their craniums, a drop or two of attar of roses; charily used, the supply being small.
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I peeped out as charily as a jailer.
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But the charily of cold cash is a questionable thing.
From Project Gutenberg
The daughter more than reciprocated the love so charily bestowed, and her impressionable nature seemed to reflect her father's changeful moods.
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They ate the expensive grapes charily.
From Project Gutenberg
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.
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The uniform, when it appeared, was frequently a coarse homespun gray, charily trimmed with red worsted, and stained with the rains and earth of the islands.
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