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What does archly mean?

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Adverb
  1. In an arch manner; slyly.
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When she faced Vaniman, the young cashier was regarding her archly.
He began by a demurrer, speaking archly with subtle shades of expression.
She stepped through it and archly looked back at him, still in the room.
Conversations with friends are archly intellectual, more sporting than serious.
Storm Thorgerson could be inscrutable, grand and archly funny – all qualities that placed him some distance from the music industry's standard mixture of flimsy bonhomie and superficiality.
But, from the start, D'Ambrose tells this story in an allusive, elliptical, symbolic, and archly comedic way — a way that's both derivative and original, quotational and personal.

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