Definitions
in an arch manner; with playful slyness or roguishness
Word origin
From arch + -ly.
Used in a sentence
“Phoebe lay down by me, and ask'd me archly if, now that I had seen the enemy, and fully considered him, I was still afraid of him?”
Fanny Hill“Though he intends it destructively, Rothbard is right that there are relations between the millennial hope for justice he archly calls KGE—Kingdom of God on Earth—and communism.”
“My eyebrows recently plucked archly.”
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