coyadjective
uk/kɔɪ/us/kɔɪ/coy adjective (SECRET)
UK intentionally keeping something secret:
She's very coy about her age.
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Secrecy and privacy
- anonymity
- anonymize
- anonymous
- backroom
- backstage
- counsel
- dissimulation
- entre nous
- executive privilege
- furtive
- gatepost
- lid
- lip
- privately
- privileged
- sanctum
- secrecy
- secret
- skeleton
- sweep
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coy adjective (MODEST)
(especially of women) being or pretending to be shy, or like a child:
She gave me a coy look from under her schoolgirl's fringe.
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Faking & pretending
- a wolf in sheep's clothing idiom
- affect
- assume
- believe
- bluff
- changeling
- charlatan
- feign
- fraud
- go through the motions idiom
- guise
- impostor
- play at sth
- play possum idiom
- play sth out
- play-acting
- pose as sb
- professed
- purport
- quack
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coyly
adverb uk/ˈkɔɪ.li/us/ˈkɔɪ.li/
She smiled coyly.
coyness
noun [ U ] uk/ˈkɔɪ.nəs/us/ˈkɔɪ.nəs/