How to Use archly in a Sentence

archly

adverb

• Breed smiled archly at the Chinatown dignitaries — and at her mentor, former Mayor Willie Brown — who were lined up alongside her on the platform.
  — Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Feb. 2018
• The idea of the decadent rich getting their kicks by brutalizing the indigenous people of a poor country and getting away with it might be archly satirical.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Jan. 2023
• Befitting of its title, the caustic novel is an archly acidic look at the celebrity death industrial complex and all those who seek to seize the narrative—and the spotlight—in the wake of a famous person’s death.
  — Chloe Schama, Vogue, 14 Sep. 2022
• This archly witty English pop-rock band has gained a fervent — and growing — American audience in the last two years, thanks in part to the reputation of its outspoken lead singer, Matthew Healy.
  — New York Times, 25 May 2017
• The dominance of the men’s game nearly everywhere else was the reality Germany’s women archly pointed up in a video noting that the prize for the first of their eight European championships was a tea set.
  — Siobhan Morrin, Time, 5 June 2019
• Dani ultimately gets a measure of revenge—though even this, in Aster’s archly plotted script construction, offers Dani some mixed motives of her own, a measure of mercy along with her rage.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 8 July 2019
• Mark Price is especially notable as the archly humorous and scheming butler Wadsworth, who knows all the guests invited by the mysterious Mr. Boddy to his manor house have more than a few secrets to hide.
  — Laura Demarco, cleveland, 1 Feb. 2020
• Melodies inevitably appear from inside the opiated haze of instrumentation and the sometimes archly clever wordplay.
  — Greg Kot, chicagotribune.com, 9 Oct. 2019
• Returning to her native West, the narrator confronts postpartum depression, addiction, the Manson family and more, in ways both world-weary and archly funny.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2021
• The reality of the situation in Zug was almost certainly less archly conspiratorial than the dossier alleged, but the problem of business as usual was precisely the point.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, WIRED, 18 June 2018
• Death Becomes Her, Robert Zemeckis’s archly malevolent 1992 comedic extravaganza, was a departure from her art-house fare.
  — Harper's BAZAAR, 3 May 2021
• Their exchanges often, too, featured an archly nerdy scientific patois.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Jan. 2023
• Ruiz presents a range of archly ridiculous, melodramatic scenarios built on mixed signals, marred language and cross purposes among a populace emerging from a violent political nightmare.
  — Robert Abele, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 June 2019
• Foxtrot is best when it’s posing philosophical questions to the viewer just through its perfectly realized bizarre environments, including Michael and Dafna’s archly designed home and Jonathan’s shipping container.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 27 Feb. 2018

Last Updated: 14 Sep 2024