Crossword clues for archly
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Archly \Arch"ly\, adv. In an arch manner; with attractive slyness or roguishness; slyly; waggishly.
Archly the maiden smiled.
--Longfellow.
Wiktionary
adv. In an arch#Adjective manner; slyly.
WordNet
adv. with playful slyness or roguishness [syn: in an arch manner]
Usage examples of "archly".
Even while Miss Airedale gazed archly up at him, and he was busy with cheerful conversation, he was conscious of that broad band of perfect colour, monotonous, comforting, thrilling.
She played archly about the guests she welcomed to a table in a sunny spot in the gallery.
She laughed archly, and responded with some Slavic words, and then delivered her train of sight-seers over to the custodian who was to show them through the halls and chambers of the Burg.
In dry, precise tones he told of their precautions against outside signals, of the waxing and waning of the "spontaneous resonance"–now he used the term archly, pausing before and after the words as if to put verbal quotation marks around them, smiling very slightly–and he paced back and forth before the blackboards, trying to remember the measured way Dyson had done it, head tilted down.
Stucco-sculpted into an archly ironic lavender mosque, festooned with bright brand name items.