"What have you got in that box?" "A cake," said Anne archly.
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Archly
//ˈɑɹt͡ʃ.li//
Synonyms for "archly"
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Translations
13 translations across 11 languages.
Catalan
1 entries- maliciosament adv (in an arch manner)
Esperanto
1 entries- malice adv (in an arch manner)
French
1 entries- malicieusement adv (in an arch manner)
Georgian
2 entries- თამამად adv (in an arch manner)
- კეკლუცად adv (in an arch manner)
German
2 entries- schlau adv (in an arch manner)
- verschmitzt adv (in an arch manner)
Greek
1 entries- χαιρέκακα adv (in an arch manner)
Italian
1 entries- maliziosamente adv (in an arch manner)
Malagasy
1 entries- ankasomparana adv (in an arch manner)
Polish
1 entries- łobuzersko adv (in an arch manner)
Portuguese
1 entries- maliciosamente adv (in an arch manner)
Spanish
1 entries- maliciosamente adv (in an arch manner)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
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?
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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.
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My eyebrows recently plucked archly.
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