coyly dans le dictionnaire Oxford-Hachette

Traductions de coyly dans le dictionnaire anglais»français

coyly [GB ˈkɔɪli, Am ˈkɔɪli] ADV

coyly

avec fausse modestie

Exemples monolingues (non-vérifiés par l'équipe de rédaction)

anglais

She coyly leads him up to her room, where she initially enjoys his attentions.

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She has her eyes turned coyly downwards, but she raises them for an instant in a coquettish smirk.

www.thestar.com

The musicians glance coyly at the viewer, actors very aware of their spectators.

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She resists coyly, or as coyly as she can in the middle of the night by the pool in a skin-baring dress.

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Do we coyly reveal the fact that your play on which the book was founded has already been made into a picture three times?

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She coyly adds that "romances blossom" amid the sweaty nakedness of the notorious steamy cave, but never for her.

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She chose her outfit carefully, had her make-up touched up on the court bench and coyly pleaded no contest to felony burglary.

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But these tend to be done so coyly that you have to squint hard to spot the changes.

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She was asked about species at risk and said coyly that they couldn't talk about endangered species.

countylive.ca

But her set of pipes and her willingness to use them dramatically, and sometimes coyly, to bring out the best of everything she sings brushes aside such criticisms as unjustified.

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