archly
adv1
In the form of an arch.
- My eyebrows recently plucked archly.1984 April 14, Freddie Greenfield, “Spoiling the View”, in Gay Community News, page 19:
archly
advUS /ˈɑɹt͡ʃ.li/
Etymology From arch + -ly.
1
In an arch manner; slyly.
- 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?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:
- 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.2022, China Miéville, chapter 6, in A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto, →OCLC: