archly

adv

1. In an arch manner; slyly.

   “Phoebe lay down by me, and ask'd me archly if, now that I had seen the enemy, and fully considered him, I was still afraid of him?”

   “Though he intends it destructively, Rothbard is right that there are relations between the millennial hope for justice he archly calls KGE—Kingdom of God on Earth—and communism.”

2. (not-comparable)In the form of an arch.

   “My eyebrows recently plucked archly.”