archly
English
Etymology
Adverb
archly (comparative more archly, superlative most archly)
- In an arch manner; slyly.
- 1749, John Cleland, “part 2”, in Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, London: G. Fenton, OCLC 13050889:
- 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?
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Translations
in an arch manner
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