What is "charitably"

Usage examples of "charitably".

The green fire scattered highlights from her limbs and face which made her look, Adda thought charitably, half-attractive for once.

Through the open doorway a slatternly woman was visible behind a plank set on a couple of kegs, dispensing what might charitably be termed whisky to a barefoot white man in the togs and tarred pigtail of a British sailor, a keelboatman whose clothing and body could be smelled from the door, and a couple of the weariest, grubbiest whores January had ever seen in his life.

Besides his old shoes, the crowned monarch charitably gave Newport a little heap of corn, only seven or eight bushels, and with this little result the absurd expedition returned to Jamestown.

We surely cannot but admire the benevolent exertions of this great and good man, especially when we consider how grievously he was afflicted with bad health, and how uncomfortable his home was made by the perpetual jarring of those whom he charitably accommodated under his roof.

And quick she seized the opportunity charitably to enumerate the parures in her jewel-case, and laces in her drawers, and the dresses in her wardrobes.

Charitably wishing that, amid all his agility he might yet make a false step, and find an unexpected and rather cold bath in the lake below, Stevens now turned his eyes upon Margaret Cooper.

Now, I have known cases in which good-natured debauchees have interested themselves charitably in the difficulties of forlorn families.

And, having learned of the blonde whore's role in the recent disaster caused by the Camisards at the expense of the Marquise and her poor, innocent Anthea, he charitably undertook to prepare the slender homecomer for Anthea's imminent vengeance.

They had added three more demerits to my original one, and now charitably suggested that I could immediately work them off by marching round them in a circle, singing my House song at the top of my lungs.

Though his wife and her sister were attractive women, Vernon Dokey, to put it charitably, was not a handsome man.

They were shunned, however, by all those charitably disposed inhabitants of Bridgetown who flocked to the improvised hospital with gifts of fruit and flowers and delicacies for the injured English seamen.

As they proceeded down the Chaudiere River, they suddenly came upon a French Canadian settlement, where they were charitably received and fed fresh vegetables and beef.

She was a pest and a pot of poison, of course, but all the same, he reflected charitably, it was a shame that she should look so green about the gills.

Or, less charitably, charged that she was as much of an idiot savant as Boomer Petway.

And you shall love him in deed and in such wise that you shall charitably do unto him as you would that it were done unto yourself.