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On this page you'll find 24 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to coyness, such as: bashfulness, demureness, diffidence, modesty, reserve, and sheepishness.
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In general, the girl-child, when in love, displays far less coyness and reserve than the young woman.
THE SEXUAL LIFE OF THE CHILDALBERT MOLL"Well, I'm sure you're among friends when you're here," Mrs. O'Brien said with a downcast look of melting coyness.
THE ROSIE WORLDPARKER FILLMOREWe struck up an acquaintance with him, after a few days of coyness on his part, and finally made him a friend.
ARTISTS AND ARABSHENRY BLACKBURNMaiden coyness and love of liberty might make her as willing to elude his approach as her friends could wish.
MAGNUM BONUMCHARLOTTE M. YONGEMrs. Butters' coyness and refusal to be embraced because of the flask of coffee in her bosom is an instance of this.
A WOMAN'S PART IN A REVOLUTIONNATALIE HARRIS HAMMONDResting her white elbows on Ethridge's desk and eyeing him with calculating coyness, Lucy knew that he had not read the stories.
BIZARRELAWTON MACKALLWas she going to forget her cruelty and coyness and show herself to me over the water at last, at the latest possible moment?
A JOURNAL FROM JAPANMARIE CARMICHAEL STOPESThe only thing that worried him now was the coyness about shooting.
HUNTINGTOWERJOHN BUCHANShe yielded to temptation, but with becoming coyness and modesty.
THE BOOK OF THE BUSHGEORGE DUNDERDALEYour lover has fallen under the law; what then can you lose, by raising the veil of maidenly coyness a little?
QUINTUS CLAUDIUS, VOLUME 2 OF 2ERNST ECKSTEINWORDS RELATED TO COYNESS
- bashfulness
- celibacy
- chastity
- constraint
- coyness
- decency
- delicacy
- demureness
- diffidence
- discreetness
- humbleness
- humility
- inhibition
- innocence
- lack of pretension
- meekness
- propriety
- prudery
- purity
- quietness
- reserve
- reticence
- self-effacement
- simplicity
- timidity
- unobtrusiveness
- unostentatiousness
- unpretentiousness
- virtue
- bashfulness
- celibacy
- chastity
- constraint
- coyness
- decency
- delicacy
- demureness
- diffidence
- discreetness
- humbleness
- humility
- inhibition
- innocence
- lack of pretension
- meekness
- propriety
- prudery
- purity
- quietness
- reserve
- reticence
- self-effacement
- simplicity
- timidity
- unobtrusiveness
- unostentatiousness
- unpretentiousness
- virtue
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.