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Meanings of archness in English

Inappropriate playfulness.

Usage of archness in English
1
There was no archness in her glance; her humor was wholly masculine.
The Rim of the Desert
2
Nods and becks and a mysterious archness of expression pointed the question.
The Path to Honour
3
There came an archness into her look that inflamed me the more.
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
4
But Blancanieves has a tangy intensity that easily compensates for any archness.
The Irish Times
5
She tossed up her fingers lightly, with a perfect charm of archness.
The Battle of the Strong: A Romance of Two Kingdoms — Volume 2
6
The first hint of her old combative spirit or her old archness!
The Rustlers of Pecos County
7
They told me that archness in a 10-year-old was not welcome.
The Irish Times
8
Mr. Teal wagged his head at him with a kind of priestly archness.
A Man of Means
9
There appeared on Marion's face something that was like the ashes of archness.
The Judge
10
Lydia's little tremulous air of archness dropped under this point-blank rejoinder.
The Squirrel-Cage
11
Was there ever such beauty, such archness, such coquetry,-suchdamned elusiveness?
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
12
Lucy raised her eyes, and something of her natural archness played in their expression.
Paul Clifford — Volume 04
13
And the delicious archness in her tone captivated him anew.
A Little Girl in Old Detroit
14
To him the situation was incongruous with the terrible archness of a fat woman.
The Best Short Stories of 1919, and the Yearbook of the American...
15
If I may propose myself-The roguish smile was lost in a radiant archness.
Our Friend the Charlatan
16
Never had her tales sparkled with such wit and archness.
The Story Girl
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