How To Use Coyly In A Sentence
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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
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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
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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
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With our unrefined ways and backwoods Malayali attire, we would sit coyly, yet smugly, as the juke-box sang at our command.
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Ted smiled coyly as if the word guess was a modest expression of fact from the mouth of the only authority.
The Riverman
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✒ 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
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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
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Smiling coyly, she slowly brought out from her backpack a small bottle of wine.
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Tony Blair is coyly vacillating on the issue of standing for European Council president.
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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.
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He grinned coyly and we continued on our stroll, slurping our ice cream and looking like content children.
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It was something to do with the knobbly knees, the way one leg would drag coyly behind the other, and the impression of Kelly having feet that headed in opposite directions.
Gerard Kelly obituary
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He coyly admits he gets followed around the country by the inevitable groupies, many of the fairer sex.
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He is widely rumored to be the driving force behind the proposed lawsuit and he coyly admits to fielding inquiries.
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She coyly sat on a gentleman's knee to the amusement of the audience.
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Asked whether she'd accept the vice president slot, she coyly dodged a direct answer.
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This is why John McCain coyly smiles each time Obama makes this statement.
Archive 2008-10-01
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Her delivery is mannered: grandstanding effects punctuated by hammily deadpan understatement and coyly rhetorical pauses emerging from a face cosmeticized into a comic mask.
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Though coyly written in the third person, these quips show him basking in his achievements.
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Finnish journalist colleague invites Mr Brown to feel her thigh: she is wearing suspenders and a garter belt in what she coyly tells him is a protest against the church's repressive sexual mores.
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I'm glad our wedding photographer didn't make us peek out coyly from behind a tree or some such nonsense.
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I smiled coyly and climbed out of the pool.
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Now, if I wanted, I could buy a tankini, or a magical patented Slimsuit in an exotic tiger print designed to whittle inches off my waist and keep spectators’ eyes from resting too long on what the tag coyly called my “trouble zones.”
Best Friends Forever
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Sometimes she would come out of the house, if the steps were very full, with her own sketching paraphernalia in her hands and say, ever so coyly: "May I scriggle through?" or ask the squatters on her own steps if they could find a little corner for her.
Miss Mapp
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Our guide coyly overlooks their age discrepancy, as carved on the headstone.
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He bowled his last delivery in first-class cricket, at the end of an inconsequential match for Durham against the 1993 Australian tourists, with his member hanging out of his trousers, an act which Wisden coyly described as "unbecoming and flippant".
Ian Botham by Simon Wilde - review
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They looked at each other a little coyly and giggled.
Times, Sunday Times
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She is walking down a Prague street, a shopping basket over her arm, to the market to buy carrots, leeks, mackerel, and passes by chance a shoe shop, and there are the red shoes in the window -- all by themselves on a little plinth raised above the lesser footwear, the price tag coyly peeking out from the base -- and she has such a powerful urge to go in and try them on that that is what she does.
Tom Gregory: From Alzheimer's to Auschwitz at 32,000 Feet
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Tadashi collection cocktail dresses and gowns tend to be figure-flattering, with gathers called ruching, darts and shutter pleats coyly masking all manner of flaws.
Dressing Women
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She glanced coyly at him from under long lashes.
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They do not avert their eye coyly or present a subordinate sex symbol image that invites the male gaze.
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she pouted and looked at him coyly
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I ordered the modest $8 omelette du jour, which arrived as plump as a hen, sitting high and proud on its plate, a bit of Gruyère from the Gruyère and mushroom filling peeking out coyly from one corner, threading toward a pile of crisp potatoes.
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Victoria smiled seductively at him and bit her bottom lip coyly.
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He dismissed the notion but only after coyly reminding us that he himself ranked 94 in that same poll.
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Finnish journalist colleague invites Mr Brown to feel her thigh: she is wearing suspenders and a garter belt in what she coyly tells him is a protest against the church's repressive sexual mores.
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Most dances were left coyly undated in the program handout.
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Mandy had the utter audacity to roll her eyes coyly at Matthew.
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WedLock, as it's coyly named, is a new type of casualty insurance that gives the unhappily married policyholder a payout after he or she is unhitched.
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Lisa coyly looked back at him over her shoulder with a small smile.
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Molly grinned at him, coyly running her tongue across her lips.
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She was coyly twirling one of her dark gold plaits in one hand.
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He declined to give the exact figures, coyly revealing: "There was very little in it".
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While never advocating terror explicitly, translators were discovering Arafat did acknowledge the need for "Amalia" during the day, ( "acts") implying civil disobedience to Israeli directives, while simultaneously (and rather coyly) stating matters "after nightfall" were an entirely distinct issue.
Qanta Ahmed, MD: The Adventures of Itamar Marcus and the Hamas Bunny: Palestine at Play
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She sang to a captivated audience and when it came to her final song from Carmen she coyly sat on a gentleman's knee to the amusement of the audience.
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She smiles coyly when pressed about her private life.
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Hugo Chavez, Venezuela's narcissist-Leninist president, surprised precisely no one last week when he coyly gave his supporters "permission" to petition for a referendum to abolish presidential term li ...
Francisco Toro: Why Chavez Wants To Be President for Life
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a shopping basket over her arm, to the market to buy carrots, leeks, mackerel, and passes by chance a shoe shop, and there are the red shoes in the window -- all by themselves on a little plinth raised above the lesser footwear, the price tag coyly peeking out from the base -- and she has such a powerful urge to go in and try them on that that is what she does.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
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The writer coyly defers answers about his mystery woman.
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They looked at each other a little coyly and giggled.
Times, Sunday Times
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She coyly asks if she can wear it.
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Marston's movie leaves you with an unsatisfying feeling that the comparison has been coyly hinted at, but left unexplored.
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England to the detryment of many Englysshe men; specyally it kylleth them the whiche be troubled with the Colycke and the stone, and the strayne coylyon; for the drynke is a cold drynke.
Early English Meals and Manners
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Elsewhere, sober stone houses peek coyly at one and other across cobbled streets and evocative old closes.
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The administration coyly refused to put a firm figure on the war's costs.
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In Concerto #24 his delicious use of rubato at the fortepiano's first entrance is coyly suggestive.
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Despite her impressive results,she remains somewhat of a mystery, even coyly avoiding answers that might reveal her form.
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When his facial features assumed a confused expression, she smiled almost coyly before rising on her tiptoes and planting a kiss directly on his lips.
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Her company's sales have continued to grow at a double-digit rate, she says coyly.
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The second purpose is the transfer of wealth from the countries of the West to Third World countries, in satisfaction of what is called coyly a 'climate debt.'
Moonbattery
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The perfectly coifed doc on duty mugged coyly for the cameras as he explained the medical emergency.
