Sentence examples for would be coy from inspiring English sources

"That would be coy".

It would be coy to avoid any comparisons with Al Pacino's exciting, savage-spirited performance for the Public Theater production in Central Park and, later, Broadway.

As Rene says in court, the dead student "didn't call Richie an 'n' word, he called him a nigger," and the blunt use of that word is necessary; anything less would be coy.

Deanna would be coyer, but when she was ready to sabotage her father's authority she would do so with more tact, and with more devastation, too.

Roberts does deep into the electoral skullduggery, asking Perry if he's simply freezing the gubernatorial field for Texas AG Greg Abbott to run for the statehouse, but Perry, having signalled that he'd be coy about that topic at the outset, remains coy now.

This is a production of the Target Margin Theater, a brave experimental troupe that would never be coy about a curse word.

The Stucleys haven't been shy about promoting the farmhouse and its small-screen credits – but then, if you owned a cottage that had been in Sense and Sensibility and The Night Manager, would you be coy?

But, let's not be coy - there would be no doubt it would be an offensive operation.

When asked who would be next, she was coy.

And, having decided to give the story a front-page airing, it would have been coy to have tried to create a headline that avoided the term.

"You can be coy, or you can be candid — I'd rather be candid and let people judge that.