gingerly

gingerly
    adv 1: in a gingerly manner; "gingerly I raised the edge of the
           blanket"
    adj 1: with extreme care or delicacy; "they proceeded with
           gingerly footwork over the jagged stones"; "the issue was
           handled only in a gingerly way"- W.S.White
    

Gingerly \Gin"ger*ly\, adv. [Prov. E. ginger brittle, tender;
   cf. dial. Sw. gingla, g[aum]ngla, to go gently, totter, akin
   to E. gang.]
   Cautiously; timidly; fastidiously; daintily.
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         What is't that you took up so gingerly ? --Shak.
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54 Moby Thesaurus words for "gingerly":
      calculating, cannily, canny, careful, carefully, cautious,
      cautiously, charily, chary, circumspect, circumspectly,
      considerate, daintily, dainty, deliberate, delicate, delicately,
      discreet, fastidious, guarded, guardedly, heedful, hesitant,
      judicious, leaving out nothing, mindful, nervous, noncommittal,
      on guard, overlooking no possibility, pawky, politic, prudent,
      regardful, safe, shy, shyly, slow to act, squeamish, tentative,
      tentatively, thorough, timid, timidly, timorous, timorously,
      unadventurous, uncommunicative, undaring, unenterprising,
      unprecipitate, warily, wary, watchful