What is another word for "coy"?
Roget's Thesaurus (1911) lists these synonyms for "coy": and, background, bashful, bashfulness, beat, blush, blushing, bushel, candle, cast, ceremony, constrained, constraint, countenance, demure, demureness, diffidence, diffident, disposition, distance, draw, drum, eye, face, fame, find, give, good, hide, humble, humbly, humility, keep, light, merit, modest, modesty, nervous, noiseless, not.
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- Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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