charily

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for charily
Adverb
  • Mamdani, often viewed warily by business leaders, has been quietly working to ease concerns about his progressive platform, with mixed success.
    Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Most of my clients - small and mid-sized business owners - are watching this technology warily.
    Gene Marks, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Martinez is guardedly optimistic that, despite the grim statistics in Fresno — where, on average, 25 pedestrians a year are killed — his hometown can one day replicate Hoboken’s success.
    Johnny Dodd, PEOPLE, 7 Nov. 2025
Adverb
  • As Garfield hesitantly moves forward with his campaign, he is forced to align with Chester Arthur (Nick Offerman), who unexpectedly becomes his running mate, and with the domineering but highly influential Senator Roscoe Conkling (Shea Whigham).
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 6 Nov. 2025
  • His crossing has often been a source of frustration, sometimes ballooning the ball too often, taking too long to put it into the area or cutting back on himself hesitantly.
    Matt Woosnam, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Lines of hundreds of guests snaked around the inside of the department store (which takes up an entire city block in Manhattan), with onlookers snapping photos quizzically.
    Anika Reed, USA Today, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Daedone looked at me quizzically.
    Thessaly La Force, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2025
Adverb
  • Referring to news coverage of Tesla’s $1 trillion package for Elon Musk, Abramovic cursed at the thought incredulously.
    Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Sanders interjected incredulously during a 2015 interview with the liberal columnist Ezra Klein.
    W. James Antle III, The Washington Examiner, 28 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • Central bank independence from political interference when setting rates is critically important.
    Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 4 Nov. 2025
  • And on top of all else, America’s air traffic control systems are critically outdated.
    Sydney Lake, Fortune, 4 Nov. 2025
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“Charily.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/charily. Accessed 12 Nov. 2025.

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