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How to use coyness in a sentence

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From its impenetrable title to the insular instrumental segues between the real songs, the man's second record risks coyness at every turn.
Passivity, submissiveness and coyness can be dangerous, and may create an atmosphere of sexual aggression.
Suddenly the coyness was gone from her voice, replaced by genuine wistfulness.
Am I utterly evil and cynical to think this coyness is the most clever way to raise investor interest?
Stewart gestured crossing his heart and sealing his lips and laughed heartily at his master's coyness.
The coyness about the price is, we presume, because the actual selling price will be dependent on the kinds of discount deals on offer.
Gummo Trotsky, possibly inspired by last week's story of his unaccustomed silence, has now turned his coyness into 34 comments.
He is describing a paradigm shift, and this fact is all the more obvious for his unwonted coyness in discussing it.
There's no mistaking his evil intent, so the coyness of the first half of the film, which slowly hints at it, seems utterly unnecessary.
He loved gossip, had a wicked salacious eye, a sly coyness, and he actually snickered all the time, delicious and conspiratorial.
This Bach is not as reverently worshiped, it is adored with coyness, sparkle, and a twinkling eye.
While the record's disposition may be a departure for these New Yorkers, their coyness in discussing it is not.
Adults, who were shy as toddlers, had stronger brain activity in a part of the brain associated with coyness.
Yet agents and buying agents, with unusual coyness and some desperation, are reporting a lack of stock and turning away buyers.
In an industry famed for its confidence and self-belief, there's no room for coyness or self-depreciation.
Stage fright masks itself as a domineering style, or as coyness, egoism, or pride.
Both are sandwiched into a small swing between fat pink silk bolsters so there isn't much room for coyness.
The customary number with children from the audience goes without gush or embarrassing coyness.
I only answered by an incredulous smile, which, for all his monastic subtlety, struck him as the expression of a young girl's coyness.
Lord of my heart, no more shall there be for me waiting in corners, no more coyness and sweetness of demeanour.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Men bowed to each other with burlesque dancing school formality, offered arms, or accepted them with bearlike coyness.
For his coyness we were partly consoled by the gambols of the river-horses.
It was impossible for him to forget her gentle look or the coyness of her hands.
I say, were I her equal, I could find in this shyness coyness, and in that coyness love.
This was no time for coyness, and she was too tender and true a woman to feel or to affect it.
The only thing that worried him now was the coyness about shooting.
She looked up at me appealingly, though with no trace of coyness.
He cursed the girl's fickleness, her coyness, her obstinacy!
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