archness

Historical Examples

• There was something half painful in their jocund gayety and archness.

  Lippincott's Magazine, September, 1885

  Various

• All her animation and archness had not rendered it half so pleasant to look upon.

  Hopes and Fears

  Charlotte M. Yonge

• There came an archness into her look that inflamed me the more.

  The Crossing

  Winston Churchill

• There was an archness in her smile which was altogether womanly.

  Unveiling a Parallel

  Alice Ilgenfritz Jones and Ella Marchant

• She looked at him with a concern which was to me more engaging than her archness.

  The Admiral

  Douglas Sladen