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archly

/ahrch-lee/US // ˈɑrtʃ li //

拱形的,拱形,拱形地,拱起的

Definitions

adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : in an arch or roguish manner.

Examples

  • "Sufficient guarantee," said her father, smiling archly as he looked up to his son, whose fair face had coloured deep red.

  • When they walked down to the shore she smiled archly at Mayo from under the brim of a very fetching straw poke.

  • Ah, you profess to love Scotland very much,” said Bertha archly, “but your brother evidently loves it more than you do.

  • Whereat Miss Tripp laughed archly and playfully shook a daintily gloved finger at him.

  • Nick intimated that he himself was not eager for more people, whereupon Mrs. Gresham rather archly smiled.