Sentence examples for coy kind from inspiring English sources

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No surprise, off-the-shoulder is a good look, a more coy kind of sexy than the cutouts we've grown accustomed to.

By Ian Crouch January 22 , 2010For the moment, while bound books hold out against the onslaught of "devices" (now a thoroughly mangled word), reading in public continues to be a coy kind of performance.

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There's no point in trying to be coy about this kind of thing.

His foremost skill as a baseball administrator has always been a kind of coy, homespun conciliation.

"He struck me as very laid-back, kind of coy and not particularly trustworthy," says Greenspan when I speak to him.

She is a whole different kind of coy in describing the harmless fun she had roller skating with a Hollywood crowd on school nights when she was about 15.

Mr. de la Renta, at least, showed a more confident hand, creating a Moorish backdrop for gold matelassé jeans and jackets that sparkled with uptown rightness and those fantasy numbers he does with a kind of coy self-referencing.

After all, throughout the presidential race, pop's Rocket Man kept dropping coy hints, precisely the kind of things that might lead anyone to believe he was 100% behind the Trump campaign: "I fear for the world … [if] Donald Trump gets to be president"; "we need a humanitarian in the White House, not a barbarian"; "I'm not a Republican in a million years – why doesn't he ask Ted fucking Nugent?

Initially Gates was coy about exactly what kind of wireless connection the devices would use, but by the second speech he disclosed that Microsoft had built its own network of transmitters using FM subcarrier bands.

Josh Lobis: It's kind of a coy, little way to still get to the best parties, have your cake and eat it too and be a guy.

She's that kind of singer: cutesy, coy, with a voice as sweet as golden syrup.

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