ARCHLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does archly mean? 

• ARCHLY (adverb)
  The adverb ARCHLY has 1 sense:

1. in an arch manner; with playful slyness or roguishness

  Familiarity information: ARCHLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARCHLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In an arch manner; with playful slyness or roguishness

Pertainym:

arch (naughtily or annoyingly playful)

 Context examples 

Oh! if these are your only objections, cried Mrs Smith, archly, Mr Elliot is safe, and I shall give myself no more trouble about him.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

“He means, solicited by him, Mr. Copperfield,” said Mrs. Micawber, archly.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Elizabeth looked archly, and turned away.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

“The sweets of housekeeping in a country village!” said Miss Crawford archly.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I have always admired her complexion, replied Emma, archly; but do not I remember the time when you found fault with her for being so pale?

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Both, replied Elizabeth archly; for I have always seen a great similarity in the turn of our minds.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

“If any part could tempt you to act, I suppose it would be Anhalt,” observed the lady archly, after a short pause; “for he is a clergyman, you know.”

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I was still looking at the doorway, thinking that Miss Mowcher was a long while making her appearance, when, to my infinite astonishment, there came waddling round a sofa which stood between me and it, a pursy dwarf, of about forty or forty-five, with a very large head and face, a pair of roguish grey eyes, and such extremely little arms, that, to enable herself to lay a finger archly against her snub nose, as she ogled Steerforth, she was obliged to meet the finger half-way, and lay her nose against it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“My dear child,” said she, laughing, “what are you afraid of? Do you think Henry will claim the necklace as mine, and fancy you did not come honestly by it? or are you imagining he would be too much flattered by seeing round your lovely throat an ornament which his money purchased three years ago, before he knew there was such a throat in the world? or perhaps”—looking archly—“you suspect a confederacy between us, and that what I am now doing is with his knowledge and at his desire?

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)