coyly adv.
害羞地, 羞怯地
coyly[ adv ]
in a coy manner
<adv.all>
she pouted and looked at him coyly
Coyly \Coy"ly\, adv.
In a coy manner; with reserve.
- Williams changed the ending for the Broadway director, Elia Kazan: 'I was fearful that I would lose his interest if I didn't re-examine the script from his point of view' he wrote coyly about rewriting in 1955.
- "She's the boss," a sign on the dwarf mongoose cage coyly proclaimed, under the rubric, "A day in the life of a Dwarf Mongoose family."
- Marie, coyly simpering like Mother Simone in La Fille mal gardee, is persuaded to dance the celesta variation while Louise is given an extra solo from The Sleeping Beauty.
- Then, coyly: "But I'm worth it."
- "I love a woman who says how she feels," Mr. Bernsen says coyly.