Words similar to coyly

Example sentences for: coyly

How can you use “coyly” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

These are, no doubt, parochial concerns, but Brodkey always seemed to be deliberately provoking the puzzlement, coyly playing hide-and-seek with us.
You coyly ask permission to voice the heresy that formalism is overrated, as if we are writing in 1970 and you have something brave to say.
' Victoria asks coyly, ...
(In her acknowledgments she coyly thanks "all the Bills I have known."
The setting, however, strikes a coyly sultry note.