0 behaviour in which someone intentionally tries to keep something secret:
His coyness about his future political intentions prompted a TV news anchor to ask the politician's wife the question on everyone's lips.
A certain coyness shrouds the enterprise.
The extreme shyness he encountered when they were dating was not coyness.
Such coyness could be explained by a lack of interest in politics in favour of concentrating on music.
As will become clear, my question-mark is not mere coyness; it signals a fundamental aspect of my historiographical orientation.
There is some coyness on both sides about who does the writing in their respective shared enterprises.
Even serious linguists still show occasional embarrassment or coyness in dealing with the subject, and more popular usage in the public media is distinctly self-conscious and often brash.
