What is "coyly"

Usage examples of "coyly".

She was smiling up at the man who held her in such rapture, coyly batting her long lashes at him, laughing a little at whatever he said to her.

She slipped through the door and coyly withdrew a piece of vellum from her pocket.

She smirked at him as she seductively raised her manacled hands upward, coyly brushing her breasts, only to throw her hair over one shoulder.

Glazed eyeballs on paper doilies, a big liver like a brazil-nut, crunchy marrow-filled femurs, a row of bean-shaped kidneys, a king-size penis coyly curled against its testicles, chewy ropes of muscles, big squares of skin rolled up like apricot leather?

Big Betsy looked back at him, over her shoulder, coyly wriggling her rump.

Cyn gave the baby to Verity, and as the carriage rolled by he waved his fingers coyly at the soldiers.

She handed him a sandwich, but then she dabbed a little mustard on one nipple and coyly asked if he wanted to taste it.

Slice coyly favored when referring either to coin or a bit of the velvet veil.

The heavy table was laboriously cast aside, and the men, incongruously bedecked with varied sauces or coyly perched carcasses of roasted blackbird, struggled against each other to get to their feet.

She wanted to smile and coyly lower her eyelids in a flirtatious moment.

Her eyelids lowered coyly as she averted her face a slight degree, allowing him a view of her saddened countenance.

Lifting coyly questioning eyes to meet his stare, she dared to goad him.

Was there such a thing as reciting the call to prayer coyly, with the flourish of a man imitating a woman?

He went through his hard wares and introduced them to scents purportedly from the Orient and fragrant soaps of which Hatti coyly selected several, asking her mistress if she desired any of these heady stuffs.

Umm Nour giggled coyly, and the four slave girls made encouraging sounds.