Definition of "tartly" [tart•ly]

• In a tart manner; sourly or bitterly. (adverb)

Wiktionary.org : Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License

• ""You're in love with yourself," tartly, "and with having your own way."
• "Arnold Kling tartly observes, So, if 250 students go to freshman economics lectures, Harvard gets $25,000 an h ..."
• "(Southerners love to make much of the supposed fact it is always bad weather in the North and always good in the South) ‘Le ciel francais en tatin’ was how the report was tartly (forgive the pun!) headed-an allusion to a famous French dessert, the Tarte Tatin, which is an upside-down apple tart (and utterly delicious, I might add!)."