archly
/ˈɑɹt͡ʃ.li/
archly adverb: in an arch manner; slyly.
Adverb (1)
archly (comparative more archly, superlative most archly)
- In an arch manner; slyly.
- 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], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC
- 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.2022, China Miéville, chapter 6, in A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto, →OCLC
Adverb (2)
archly (not comparable)
- In the form of an arch.
- My eyebrows recently plucked archly.1984 April 14, Freddie Greenfield, “Spoiling the View”, in Gay Community News, page 19
archly meaning in Urdu
archly in Urdu
- چالبازی سے, داداگیری سے, مکاری سے
Forms of archly
| comparative | more archly |
|---|---|
| superlative | most archly |
Origin of archly
From arch + -ly.
Questions about archly
- What does archly mean?
- Archly means in an arch manner; slyly.
- What is archly in Urdu?
- Archly in Urdu is چالبازی سے, داداگیری سے, مکاری سے. See Archly meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is archly?
- Archly is an adverb.
- How do you pronounce archly?
- Archly is pronounced /ˈɑɹt͡ʃ.li/ (US).
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Adapted from Wiktionary: archly (page history and authors); archly (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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