(a.) Shrinking from approach or familiarity; reserved; bashful; shy; modest; -- usually applied to women, sometimes with an implication of coquetry.
(a.) Soft; gentle; hesitating.
(v. t.) To allure; to entice; to decoy.
(v. t.) To caress with the hand; to stroke.
(v. i.) To behave with reserve or coyness; to shrink from approach or familiarity.
(v. i.) To make difficulty; to be unwilling.
Example Sentences:
(1) But when you ask Lewis what exactly the Euston Project is, the editor-in-chief, a supremely confident showman, is irritatingly coy.
(2) Right now he's working on another sitcom for the BBC – he's coy about what, precisely.
(3) He often seems mysteriously amused, cocking an eyebrow and pulling a coy, wouldn’t-you-like-to-know smirk, but he likes to laugh out loud, too.
(4) I ll keep one eyes on u spurs hv a good luck this season #COYS 💋🙏👊❤ September 2, 2013 8.51pm BST This is what Assou-Ekotto's got to say about developments.
(5) Naomi Gryn with baby Sadie Joy, who was born by elective caesarean on 31 October At first I, too, was coy about telling anyone that I was pregnant.
(6) The commercial coyness is long gone, and moves to monetise the audience with new forms of advertising have often provoked backlashes.
(7) Asked about his future plans, Götze, whose contract with Bayern runs out in 2017, remained coy.
(8) While the Koch brothers remain coy about their candidate preferences, a number of billionaire donors in the Koch network, including hedge fund chieftains Paul Singer and Robert Mercer, have either made large donations to Super Pacs supporting candidates, or are expected to do so.
(9) The Labour manifesto is a little more coy: "To encourage freedom of speech and access to information, we will bring forward new legislation on libel to protect the right of defendants to speak freely."
(10) He won't reveal much about the new series, beyond a coy, "Well, there's a reunion that doesn't necessarily go to plan.
(11) His mother is a lawyer, and although there have been coy references to what his father does (along the lines of "something to do with commodities") he's actually a vice president of Morgan Stanley.
(12) But what’s damaging the lives of millions of schoolgirls and women is not daft and coy terms for periods, but being unable to talk about them at all, or being so ashamed that they have to dry their sanitary cloths under the beds or in the damp, getting urinary infections or worse.
(13) When asked about their actual prospects in the Senate and House of Representatives, both became coy.
(14) I met her, and I can only say that for a couple of hours she was smart, honest and a great talker – there was no fuss, no coyness, no sham and no act.
(15) This is idealistic stuff at the heart of his "Communitarian Conservatism" but one increasingly senses that it is theology which really underpins the argument, and that Bond is being coy about his own Anglicanism.
(16) Cameron, on the other hand, is less coy about who came out on top.
(17) Security and defence officials are coy about what they know of specific attacks.
(18) The replication of an avian influenza A, Fowl plague virus (FPV), Ulster 73 strain, was studied in chick embryo fibroblasts, assumed to be the natural host, and in cells of different origin such as LLC-MK2, Hep-2, Vero, KB and Mc Coy.
(19) He is coy when asked whether he was also approached about a senior boardroom role at HSBC around the same time, but frank about the choice he faced when the candidate for the RBS job – former Standard Chartered boss Mervyn, now Lord, Davies – pulled out.
(20) Chlamydia trachomatis strains were isolated from the endocervix by the Mc Coy technique in 31 (13.4%) of 232 women aged 18 to 26 years.
Sidle
Definition:
(v. t.) To go or move with one side foremost; to move sidewise; as, to sidle through a crowd or narrow opening.
Example Sentences:
(1) Negative gearing sidles into positive territory in Coalition's 'open mind' Read more They say negative gearing helps keep renting affordable.
(2) When he arrived at the venue and was confronted by a motley horde of fans, tipped off by a tweet, instead of sidling in the back to pace about alone in a corridor, like a normal human would, Fry blithely faced the crowd, chatting and signing autographs.
(3) Every week, it seems, brings a new furore over corporations – Apple, Google, Facebook – sidling into the private sphere.
(4) After eight years of George W Bush – who, in comparison to the Potus in the pipeline, now seems a wit of Shakespearean scale – it has been a great relief for many American expats to feel proud of their president again: “Hey, that hip, sidling, intelligent guy at the podium?
(5) It is not just military officials and government scientists who look twice in their wing mirrors when they see a motorbike sidle up alongside them.
(6) As is usually the case, radicals on both sides are resorting to ever-more ludicrous rhetoric in a bid to fan the flames – all the while oblivious of the fact that customers are yawning, sidling off and notching up airmiles with less precarious rival carriers.
(7) Tory remainers are grimly determined not to let leavers sidle away too easily from campaign promises that Britain could have its cake and eat it, somehow enjoying the benefits of single-market membership while refusing freedom of movement.
(8) It was so packed that no one saw me and so we sidled quietly away to another spot on the terrace.
(9) This girl sidled up and said, “Oh my god, it’s you ... Kevin Bacon!” And all of us, went, AAAARRRRGH.
(10) Not really,” he started and then tailed off when a stranger sidled up to listen in on the conversation.
(11) In fact, I would have remained in the dark, had Max not sidled up to me and said: 'By the way, Carole, for the purposes of this article, Jo is my PA.' And then the girls from his office got drunk and told me what every tabloid diary writer and showbiz reporter in the country apparently knew.
(12) If I sidle in you can pretend you haven’t noticed.” About a week later she was fronting another bulletin when, at the beginning of the programme, the camera swung away from her again.
(13) Not really,” he started and then tailed off when a stranger sidled up to listen in on the conversation, perhaps wary of security agents or informers.
(14) Caitlyn Jenner sidles up and tells Randy that some people like the comfort of nostalgia and he ought to accept that; she then vomits Member Berry remains all over his face, and Randy, in a daze, agrees to watch the reboot again.
(15) That night in 1981, Jenkins said not a word, but when Hoyle senior (now 82) became Lord Hoyle, Lord Jenkins sidled up and said, "It's time we had a drink."
(16) Nick Spencer Emeritus professor of child health, University of Warwick • As a one-time Labour councillor in rural Lincolnshire, non-Conservatives would often sidle up and suggest “we should work together”.
(17) Whether smiling and gesticulating at Mandaric or sidling over to the press bench to chat and joke with reporters before the proceedings began, Redknapp remained jovial and relaxed for the majority of his time in court.
(18) The frequency of sidling and supplanting also varied significantly across hormone-treatment groups, with A + E males showing higher frequencies of these behaviors than other males.
(19) Later that day a couple of army medics sidled up and confided that they had just been called upon to revive a prisoner who was being interrogated in a basement by British troops.
(20) Believe it or not, there are still some men who give matte-look hair wax, sidling over to girls with a raised eyebrow, and owning their own home a swerve.