archly
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English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Adverb
[edit]archly (comparative more archly, superlative most archly)
- In an arch manner; slyly.
- 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:
- 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?
- 2022, China Miéville, chapter 6, in A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto, →OCLC:
- 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.
Translations
[edit]in an arch manner
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Etymology 2
[edit]Adverb
[edit]archly (not comparable)
- In the form of an arch.
- 1984 April 14, Freddie Greenfield, “Spoiling the View”, in Gay Community News, page 19:
- My eyebrows recently plucked archly.