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Examples:
- - Then, as though her heart had said, " Is coyness longer necessary? - "Tess of the d'Urbervilles A Pure Woman", Thomas Hardy
- - This not alone from that indescribable coyness which all have experienced in addressing even those with whom they are most intimate, in the early, half- unrevealed, and mystic emotions of first love, but because Lady Diary's letters had been so full of her sister's declining health, of her own anxieties and fears, that he had shrunk from giving her a new subject of anxiety; and a confidence full of hope and joy seemed to him unfeeling and unseasonable. - "Lucretia, Complete", Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- - They soon came, and after much coyness, blushing, and hesitation, at last stood up, and under the inspiring influence of the violin we:- " Danced, till we were like to fa', The reel o' Tullochgorum!" - "Hudson Bay", R.M. Ballantyne
Antonyms:
- assurance, conceit, assumption, indiscretion, confidence, pertness, haughtiness, egotism, self-sufficiency, loquaciousness, impudence, freedom, sauciness, boldness, sociability, arrogance, abandon, loquacity, forwardness, self-conceit, frankness
