adv. [f. ARCH a. + -LY2.] In an arch manner; cleverly, waggishly; with good-humored slyness or sauciness.

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1662.  More, Antid. Ath., I. viii. (1712), 147. Not wittily or archly feign’d, to amuse withal.

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1732.  Mrs. Delany, Autobiog. (1861), I. 394. [He] played his part very archly; he is a comical spark.

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1858.  Longf., M. Standish, III. 153. Archly the maiden smiled.

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1863.  Kinglake, Crimea, III. i. 81. He archly resolved to have the meaning … expanded into plain French.

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