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Cooly


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Coolie

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Mathieu Flamini was too easily pulled away, and Diamé’s dinked finish was cooly executed.
  • (2) Ryan Giggs’ cooly slotted from 12 yards, before Gerrard was shown a straight red for a rash challenge on Carrick, ruining Kenny Dalglish’s return to management.
  • (3) In many ways, Comfort feels like a night-time counterpart to last year's dreamy Playin' Me by Cooly G, another debut album from a cutting-edge London producer overlooked by the Mercury panel: this year's shortlist may feature more dance albums than ever, but it's evident that those in charge simply don't know where to look beyond those whose commercial success makes them unignorable (Rudimental, Disclosure), or those that offer polite, 6music-friendly takes on dancefloor innovations of eight years ago (Jon Hopkins).
  • (4) Hillary was a New Zealand beekeeper and Norgay an illiterate "mountain coolie" (his own phrase) who was born in Tibet to a Nepali family and now lived in India – the Sherpa community, being high-altitude nomads, weren't easily caged by national boundaries.
  • (5) This formula allows 95 per cent of 3-4 month babies to produce controlled fall in body temperature at night, but most have to cooly by active thermoregulation, which relies heavily on the head as a route of heat loss.
  • (6) For six years, everything he recorded became a hit, and songs like Lost John, Bring A Little Water Sylvie, Cumberland Gap and Grand Coolie Dam followed each other into the charts as DIY skiffle bands across the country attempted to imitate his style.
  • (7) In his epoch-making collage of 1956, Just What Is It That Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing?, the living space is crowded with up-to‑the-minute objects of desire: the TV set, the vacuum cleaner, the tinned ham, the tape recorder, the body builder's muscles, the cone-shape coolie hat perched on the sexy naked housewife on the sofa.
  • (8) But Ramires, instantly making up for his earlier indiscretion, out did his compatriot with a cooly-taken strike just two minutes later, sweetly dinking the ball over Iker Casillas following a burst through the Madrid defence.The equaliser had galvanised the Premier League side who began to cause Madrid problems all over the pitch.
  • (9) It was a convenient fiction to treat the brown-skinned partner as merely his coolie.
  • (10) While early use was primarily restricted to Chinese coolies and Indian immigrant laborers, the 1970s saw drug use become the domain of the youth of Malaysia and achieve the proportions of a national crisis.
  • (11) When the Dutch colonised Indonesia in the early 19th century, one of their first tasks was to carve out vast mines on the island where locals and Chinese coolies worked side by side digging for dark specks of cassiterite – the main mineral in tin ore – to be used in alloys, conductors and tin plating.

Coyly


Definition:

  • (adv.) In a coy manner; with reserve.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Though the thought of a Panama team listening to the USA team huddle coyly sharing their secrets is a rather sweet thought.
  • (2) With the Eiffel Tower poking coyly over the horizon, it was the most French of settings for the latest instalment in Britain's spectacular summer of sport, in the wake of Andy Murray's Wimbledon, the Lions' win, and Justin Rose's victory in the US Open.
  • (3) "You might try to characterise this as a change of mind," says Lyons coyly.
  • (4) This is too coyly referred to as the “social dimension” of higher education.
  • (5) With Murdoch himself present, Cameron gave an early-evening keynote speech to a "CEO summit" organised by the Times – although the event programme published on the newspaper's website coyly described him as an unnamed "senior cabinet minister".
  • (6) For three years Heathrow has coyly danced around the issue like a spurned lover: dumped and bruised by the incoming government, why would it express its desires so forthrightly again?
  • (7) Not coyly hinted at, as had been the way previously, but dealt with head-on in the most matter-of-fact manner.
  • (8) I think I may have been known to wear an Iron Maiden T-shirt," he adds coyly.
  • (9) A younger supporter, Lauren Wojtowicz – who smiled coyly and refused to answer when asked who she voted for on Tuesday but admitted she wasn’t a Republican – said that she came away from Kasich’s victory speech “quite impressed”.
  • (10) Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton coyly batted away questions over any White House succession plan during a mutually appreciative interview on Sunday.
  • (11) Advertising, of course, is not allowed on the BBC, so the corporation was coyly insisting that the product had not actually been named – it is full name is Duchy Originals.
  • (12) He was eventually handed a 60-day ban, lifted on appeal, for saying of the match official: "Every time he signalled a foul he looked over coyly at me.
  • (13) At the end of his reign in 2009, he coyly described his role to Mark Lawson as "that sort of American 'showrunner' position", but provided a helpful job description: "To establish the tone of the show."
  • (14) Visits to nearby fast-food shops are banned, even on the way home, and hugging has been ruled unacceptable lest, as Wilshaw coyly puts it, "boys use it as an opportunity to do things they shouldn't do".
  • (15) The IMF coyly attributes the recovery to "easier credit conditions and renewed confidence".
  • (16) It has also been one of the most coyly sidestepped topics by the company's executives.
  • (17) Thank you, thank you Dave,” she trembled, coyly blowing him a kiss while the Tory backbenchers half-heartedly cheered in an effort to make this union seem something other than the product of a fevered and desperate imagination.
  • (18) Karimova has coyly refused to rule out a presidential bid herself, even though it has always been a long shot.
  • (19) Watching David and Ed coyly promise to nominate each other as their second voting preference in Jon Snow's Channel 4 television debate (cruelly scheduled against Blair's book launch on the Beeb) she seemed to be on to something.
  • (20) Coyly underselling its appeal There’s a bit in Evans’s introduction to the manifesto where she says “Ukip’s policies have been developed not to catch the public imagination”, which seems an odd way to go about attracting votes.

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