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US
/ˈtɑɹtɫi/
]
[ UK /tˈɑːtli/ ]
[ UK /tˈɑːtli/ ]
ADVERB
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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.’