0 in a way that intentionally tries to keep something secret:
He coyly suggests he may have planted fake material on the Internet to throw people off the trail.
He somewhat coyly looks away from the camera as if not quite ready for his close-up, but all the while preening.
The "little mystery" she coyly invokes here was not so trivial in the eyes of the literary world.
The book has seven sections (or 'strings to its lyre', as he coyly puts it).
She later continues the puppet show theme likening him to a marionette and coyly asking who is pulling the strings?
