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Webster 1913 Edition
Archly
Arch′ly
,adv.
In an arch manner; with attractive slyness or roguishness; slyly; waggishly.
Archly
the maiden smiled. Longfellow.
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archly
archly
English
Adverb
archly (comparative more archly, superlative most archly)
- 1749, John Cleland, Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, Part 2
- 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, Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, Part 2
Translations
in an arch manner
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