archness
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But what I remember most is the laugh, which Posey’s Irene used as a weapon to defuse someone’s plastic-surgery joke, deploying it with performative archness — as if Irene watched herself laugh.
From New York Times ● Dec. 4, 2023
Fukuhara’s extra beats between lines, slow-forming, knowing smiles, and general get-me-away-from-these-philistines archness rescue mediocre jokes before her quick bursts of ebullience remind us that Nancy would rather make over her wardrobe-challenged classmates than mock them.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2023
Now, they are buzzing with memes, videos and messages of congratulation, but also a strain of sceptical archness.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2022
If you’re worried that your manner might betray your anxiety, practice adopting a slightly artificial archness of tone, so you have something to focus and distract you.
From Slate ● Sep. 24, 2020
“Well,” Lenina enquired, with significant archness when they met next afternoon on the roof, “did you think it was fun yesterday?”
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
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