How To Use coyly In A Sentence
- However, the B.V.D. company coyly kept the origin of its trademark obscure - very few consumers knew just what the 'BVD' stood for, and once other underwear manufacturers entered the fray and began cutting into BVD's market share, more and more people were using 'BVD' as a euphemism for 'underwear' without even realizing that the term had originated as a brand name. New Urban Legends
- And he measured her in a careless way, and knew, bold now, that she would begin to retreat, coyly and delicately, as he pursued, ever ready to reverse the game should he turn fainthearted. Chapter 6
- And at Louis Vuitton, designer Marc Jacobs showed revealing sultan pants and long skirts in black guipure lace coyly woven with the house's initials. The Changing Face of Lace
- With our unrefined ways and backwoods Malayali attire, we would sit coyly, yet smugly, as the juke-box sang at our command.
- Ted smiled coyly as if the word guess was a modest expression of fact from the mouth of the only authority. The Riverman
- ✒ When Ofcom refused to sin-bin The X Factor last week while signalling concern over Rihanna and Christina Aguilera's saucy numbers, it also coyly criticised an unspecified "paper" for coverage that it claimed used photos "significantly more graphic and close-up" than the TV images in its attacks on Simon Cowell's sexed-up final. Media Monkey's Diary
- The Peter-Dale affair is spicy enough, but Melanie's on-again, off-again fling with a younger reporter is rather coyly handled, and the glamorous president seems doomed to celibacy. Review of "Eighteen Acres," a political thriller by Nicolle Wallace
- Smiling coyly, she slowly brought out from her backpack a small bottle of wine.
- Tony Blair is coyly vacillating on the issue of standing for European Council president.
- The question of sexual passion in late life and what a much older man has to offer a younger woman, apart from the status that traditionally makes him more attractive, is treated very coyly here.
