Coyness is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for COYNESS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the state of being coy
• (especially in a woman) the quality of feigning shyness or modesty in an attempt to seem alluring.
• the quality of being reluctant to give details about something regarded as sensitive; reticence
• The quality of being coy; feigned o/ bashful unwillingness to become familiar; reserve.
• the affectation of being demure in a provocative way

Words related to COYNESS

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Words that contain COYNESS

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How to use COYNESS in a sentence

• Silk hesitated and displayed a maidenly coyness far in excess of the needs of the situation.
• Under cover of the venerable age to which they had attained, they had laid aside many of those modes which coyness and modesty have prescribed to their sex.
• If he had thought there had been one bit of coyness in her words, one feminine flutter, one womanly attempt at deliberate lure and encouragement, he would have been elated.
• Coyness, of course, occurs only in feminine love, and there are other sexual differences which will be noted later on.
• COYNESS When a man is in love he wears his heart on his sleeve and feels eager to have the beloved see how passionately it throbs for her.
• Masculine coyness under such conditions has its risks.
• As we shall see in a moment, this is an abuse of language, confounding genuine resistance or aversion with coyness.
• The custom of wife capture can be easily explained without calling in the aid of what we have seen to be so questionable a thing as primitive female coyness.
• True, the respectable women, being always locked up and having no choice in the selecting of their partners, had no occasion for the exercise of any sort of coyness.
• Female coyness prevents too hasty marriages, and the girls who lack it often live to repent their shortcomings at leisure.
• HOW WOMEN PROPOSE Sufficient reasons, these, why coyness should have gradually become a general attribute of femininity.
• As a mark of modesty, coyness will always have a charm for men, and a woman devoid of it will never inspire genuine love.
• But the most suggestive trait of Kaffir women is the lack of feminine coyness in their matrimonial preliminaries.
• The courtship scene cited above indicates an instinctive knowledge of the strategic value of coyness and feigned displeasure.
• Perhaps they lacked those qualities to offset the feminine lack of coyness.
• There were mingled in her the coyness of a child and the irresistible coquetry of a woman.
• She yielded to temptation, but with becoming coyness and modesty.
• She knew nothing of coyness, caprice or mannerisms.
• An inexplicable fear seemed to have overcome her coyness, and her love was visible for a moment without a veil.
• For, spite of all your tests, your coyness, and your vigilance, I can see that marriage will mean to you what it has been to me.
• Modest, retiring, and beautiful sprite, Emblem of graces a maiden should wear, Great is the pleasure, supreme the delight Of searching for joys such coyness doth bear.
• When Philip would take her hand, or encircle her waist with his arm, or even when he pressed her coral lips, there was no pretence of coyness on her part.
• Jervis played me booty, and rather confirmed her in her coyness, and her desire of leaving me, I was mean enough to conceal myself in the closet in Mrs.
• Even in her native state she is a most attractive young person, of an engaging coyness.
• In animal society the coyness of the female is the analogue of modesty.
• He strove to convince himself that this strange coldness, this evasion, this half-repellent attitude, was but a form of maiden coyness.
• Perhaps that was an exhibition of political coyness, for he was in the lists just the same! He had 33 votes on the first ballot, of which only 14 came from the South.

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