Crossword clues for tartly
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tartly \Tart"ly\, adv. In a tart manner; with acidity.
Wiktionary
adv. In a tart manner; sourly or bitterly.
WordNet
adv. in a tart manner; "`Never mind your immortal soul,' she said tartly"
Usage examples of "tartly".
The mother thanked Jinna profusely for a very long time before she tartly ordered her girls to stop tarrying and come along.
The Queen tartly told these councillors that their solutions lacked imagination and bade them try again.
The Queen tartly told these councillors that their solutions lacked imagination and bade them try again.
She had been under a constant strain since her grandfather's death, and although she sympathised with her stepsister, she couldn't stop herself from saying tartly, "You shouldn't sneer at them, Grama, since it's people like the Dobsons who have the commodity you seem to covet.
At the funeral in Cairo she had overheard some of the older women whispering together, and one had remarked tartly that Sarah Benbrook had made David a cuckold more often than she cooked him breakfast.
They hiked through the shadows of Douglas fir and Ponderosa pine, pine pitch tartly scenting the still morning air.
I asked rather tartly, since Tracell and I were then most practicably attired in the sturdy knee breeches that even women were wearing as more durable apparel for hoeing fields and rebuilding cottages.