(1) Attack it with irony, with anger, coyness, doubt.

(2) There is a natural coyness about her behavior.

(3) This coyness is hardly surprising.

(4) Had we but world and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime.

(5) Although he felt sure he would win her in the end, he was annoyed at her continuing coyness.

(6) Early this year the publication of commercial satellite imagery explained the coyness.

(7) He rejects all of the advances of the women who are attracted to him but Bacchantes, the female followers of the god Bacchus, are enraged by what they take to be his coyness.

(8) The public may once have liked her, but her coyness and flirting now interfere with her interviews.