Get Free Checker

tartly

[ US /ˈtɑɹtɫi/ ]
[ UK /tˈɑːtli/ ]
ADVERB
  1. in a tart manner
    `Never mind your immortal soul,' she said tartly

How To Use tartly In A Sentence

  • It's what one would expect of a religious man writing about the wild," she said tartly, "but not what one would want. Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature: Alexi Zentner's 'Trapline'
  • Christine launched into a lively denunciation of the anti-woman Romance of the Rose, pointing out tartly the many faults in its logic and its humanity.
  • It is, as a Hentoff book title tartly puts it, ‘freedom of speech for me - but not for thee.’
  • Of course democracy is preferable in theory," Mr Tawfic explains tartly to the Times, "but interference and bribes began affecting the committees. No political gain in Iraqi football – so leave the players well alone
  • The trendy schmutter, she told me tartly, was all for her; and very nice she looked in it, too. Times, Sunday Times
  • And you failed to mention your afternoon in TriBeCa with Caesare Leonforte," she said tartly. FLOATING CITY
  • ‘Grandmother,’ I addressed her tartly, one eyebrow arching uncontrollably.
  • There are other patients on the ward, Lovell," the staff nurse reminded her tartly.
  • It's just a short squib of a post, but tartly phrased.
  • ‘I didn't have any leftover time,’ she recalled tartly, ‘for high jinks.’
View all