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coy

English

  1. 🔊 modestly or warily rejecting approaches or overtures
    “like a wild young colt, very inquisitive but very coy and not to be easily cajoled”
  2. 🔊 showing marked and often playful or irritating evasiveness or reluctance to make a definite or committing statement
    “a politician coy about his intentions”
  3. 🔊 affectedly modest or shy especially in a playful or provocative way

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