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archness

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8 lettersPart of speech nounSorted acehnrssStarts with AEnds with S0 clues
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Definitions

  1. inappropriate playfulness

Word origin

From arch (“principal; primary; mischievous”, adjective) + -ness.

Used in a sentence

  • Marianne was surprised and confused, yet she could not help smiling at the quiet archness of his manner
  • Meanwhile the farce was going on very successfully, and Mrs. Leary, in a hussar jacket and braided pantaloons, was enchanting the audience with her archness, her lovely figure, and her delightful ballads.
  • There was something artless in Toby's delivery; he was working in the family tradition of teasing, but he was too relenting and couldn't yet match Gerald's heavy archness.

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