Definition of "archly"

archly¹

adverb
comparative more archly, superlative most archly
1. In an arch manner; slyly.
  Quotations
  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?
  1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […]
  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.
  2022, China Miéville, chapter 6, in A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto

archly²

adverb
not comparable
1. In the form of an arch.
  Quotations
  My eyebrows recently plucked archly.
  1984 April 14, Freddie Greenfield, “Spoiling the View”, in Gay Community News, page 19