Synonyms:
archly
Meaning: in_an_arch_manner; with playful slyness or roguishness
Usage examples
"You have been investing!" and as she came across the room for a closer view, "Is it--is it Lucy?" she asked half timidly, half archly.
As Joe's buggy drove up, and while, after his usual thundering knock and pompous bustle at the door, the ex-Collector of Boggley Wollah laboured up stairs to the drawing-room, knowing glances were telegraphed between Osborne and Miss Sedley, and the pair, smiling archly, looked at Rebecca, who actually blushed as she bent her fair ringlets over her knitting.