0 in an amused way that suggests you know more about something than someone else does:
She smiled archly at him.
"I fail to understand what you're suggesting," said Claire archly.
He is archly amusing.
We were cool and archly knowing when we were younger.
She is sometimes silly and other times archly ironic.
NIEUWE WOORDEN
European
May 10, 2021
WOORD VAN DE DAG
Shimmer
archly
