Coyly

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Quietly.
  • In a coy manner; shyly; demurely.
  • noun. See coigne.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adverb. In a coy manner; with reserve.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adverb. in a coy manner
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adverb. in a coy manner
  • Word Usage
    "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.”"
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    doily  oily