archly

How To Use archly In A Sentence

• ‘He thinks it's ostentatious,’ says Boss archly.
• ‘Of course I have,’ she countered archly, ‘you just forgot.’
• ‘You will observe,’ wrote Jawaharlal Nehru archly to a Cabinet colleague, ‘that we have disturbed the hornet's nest and I believe most of us are likely to be badly stung.’
• ‘It seems to be a habit of my teammates that they all come in as rising stars,’ he said archly.
• It's a version of what might be called the "underwhelm" phenomenon – when journalists archly declare themselves to be "underwhelmed", as if informing the reader: do you see what I did? Have mercy, take pity: The A-Team catchphrase is about to go viral
• The aesthetic that appreciates kitsch is partly ironic, involving a sort of archly detached amusement. Archive 2009-03-01
• a prevailing opinion; for in the garden scene, when _Juliet_ in soliloquy exclaims, "_O Romeo, Romeo_, wherefore art thou _Romeo_?" an auditor archly replied, aloud, "_Because Barry has gone to the other house_. The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings
• ‘I'll be twenty-one in September,’ she replied archly.
• Here, at an archly named little venue in Bushwick, LA Vampires will marshal a night governed by the sounds of Not Not Fun and its dancier, more rhythmically robust sister-label, 100% Silk. Home Cooking, Foreign Fare
• I love not to make disqualifying speeches; by such we seem to intimate that we believe the complimenter to be in earnest, or perhaps that we think the compliment our due, and want to hear it cither repeated or confirmed; and yet, possibly, we have not that pretty confusion, and those transient blushes, ready, which Mr. Greville archly says are always to be at hand when we affect to disclaim the praises given us. Sir Charles Grandison