Vocabulary Word
Word: coy
Definition: shy (flirtatiously); showing a (pretended) lack of self-confidence; modest; coquettish; CF. job offer
Definition: shy (flirtatiously); showing a (pretended) lack of self-confidence; modest; coquettish; CF. job offer
Sentences Containing 'coy'
Ungrateful, cruel, coy, and fair, Was she that drove him to despair, And Love hath made her his ally For spreading wide his tyranny.
While these questions and answers were proceeding, the fair Zoraida, who had already perceived me some time before, came out of the house in the garden, and as Moorish women are by no means particular about letting themselves be seen by Christians, or, as I have said before, at all coy, she had no hesitation in coming to where her father stood with me; moreover her father, seeing her approaching slowly, called to her to come.
More Vocab Words
::: chaste - morally pure; virginal; abstaining from illicit sexual acts; modest; simple (of a style of writing); not highly decorated; austere::: glaze - cover with a thin and shiny surface; apply a glaze to; N: thin, smooth, shiny coating (as for pottery); Ex. unglazed pottery
::: bilk - swindle; cheat
::: dissonance - discord
::: ordination - ceremony conferring holy orders; ceremony of ordaining a priest
::: entrepreneur - businessperson (who assumes the risk of a business venture); contractor; ADJ. entrepreneurial
::: admonish - warn or speak to with gentle disapproval; reprove
::: pharisaical - pertaining to the Pharisees, who paid scrupulous attention to tradition; self-righteous; hypocritical
::: impeach - charge (a public official) with crime in office; raise doubts about; indict; Ex. impeach a witness's credibility
::: recluse - hermit; loner; ADJ. reclusive
