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单词 coy
释义
coy
adjective
uk
/kɔɪ/us
/kɔɪ/

coyadjective(SECRET)

UK
intentionallykeepingsomethingsecret:
故作神秘的；遮遮掩掩的；含糊其词的
She's very coyaboutherage.她对自己的年龄遮遮掩掩。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Secrecy and privacy
  • anonymity
  • anonymization
  • anonymize
  • anonymous
  • anonymously
  • data protection
  • dead men tell no talesidiom
  • dissimulate
  • dissimulation
  • down-low
  • private
  • privately
  • privileged
  • pseudonym
  • pseudonymization
  • undisclosed
  • whitewash
  • whitewashing
  • wrap
  • wrapped (up) in secrecyidiom
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coyadjective(MODEST)

(especiallyof women) being orpretendingto beshy, or like achild:
（尤指女性）害羞的，腼腆的，忸怩作态的
She gave me a coylookfrom under her schoolgirl'sfringe.她透过她那学生式的刘海羞答答地瞥了我一眼。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Faking & pretending
  • affect
  • air guitar
  • assume
  • believe
  • changeling
  • charlatan
  • cry
  • false modesty
  • falsifiable
  • falsify
  • feign
  • fraud
  • mountebank
  • out-bluff
  • passsomethingoff assomething
  • phoney
  • play-act
  • professed
  • purport
  • quack
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Related words

coyly
coyness
(Definition ofcoyfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

coy| American Dictionary

coy
adjective[-er/-est only]
us
/kɔɪ/
actingshy,uncertain, orunwillingto say much, often inordertoincreaseinterestin something bykeepingbackinformationabout it:
McIntyre is coy about hisfutureinfootball.

coyly

adverb[not gradable]us
/ˈkɔɪ·li/
Shesmiledcoyly.
(Definition ofcoyfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofcoy

coy
But there is nothingcoyor insipid in these heroines' resistance to violation.
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Roberts is not remotelycoyabout this, regularly admitting to speculation, even 'wild speculation'.
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His coded language calling for the transition to a ' productive economy ' instead of a liberal market economy is unnecessarilycoy.
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Her methodological precepts hold that language plainly says what it means, that it does not engage incoygames of concealment.
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The insecure-ambivalent child emphasizes his dependence on the parent through immature, help-seeking, orcoybehaviors, often accompanied by mild anger or resistance.
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The coercive strategy represents an effort to control caregiver behavior through angry, threatening, orcoy(feigned immaturity or fearfulness) behavior.
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I noted, for example, only onecoy'food for thought'.
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Typical coercive behaviors include threats, consisting of expressed anger requiring action on the part of the caregiver, and bribes, in the form ofcoy, disarming behaviors that elicit protection.
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Generally the tone of the book is calm and sensible, and only occasionally tips over intocoyperiphrasis, as when difficult spellings are labelled 'awkward customers'.
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With the exception of the painfullycoyand unconvincing references in the sea shanty episode, none of the characters is ever placed in relation to women.
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That is acoyeuphemism for foisting compulsory trade recognition on unwilling employers and a possible unwilling majority of the workforce.
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We also should have had at least a slightlycoyreference to the gas price.
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Concerning the announcements, there is no question of beingcoyabout this.
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However, they seem to be very discreet, not to saycoy, on that subject.
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If she iscoyand enigmatic about the date of the election, the fall in the pound will continue.
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