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Example sentences for: archly

How can you use “archly” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

True, there's the hollow man, Pierce Brosnan, in the McQueen role, but he's not bad here: His passivity is archly amusing.
Set in Brooklyn, Perry's novel (which features white characters) is bleaker than the film, less archly distant, with a nastier ending.
Twice a week in the Style section she archly instructed up-and-coming baby boomers on appropriate personal, social, and professional decorum.
--Prudie, archly
In choosing to adapt and direct The Winslow Boy , based on one of Rattigan's most tidily crafted problem pieces, Mamet points up an aspect of his own work that has increasingly dwarfed all others: the drama as a procession of archly formal negotiations.