showing marked and often playful or irritating evasiveness or reluctance to make a definite or committing statement; "a politician coy about his intentions"
A coy person is shy, or pretends to be shy, about love and sex. She is modest without being coy + coyly coy·ly She smiled coyly at Algie as he took her hand and raised it to his lips
modestly or warily rejecting approaches or overtures; "like a wild young colt, very inquisitive but very coy and not to be easily cajoled" showing marked and often playful or irritating evasiveness or reluctance to make a definite or committing statement; "a politician coy about his intentions" affectedly modest or shy especially in a playful or provocative way
If someone is being coy, they are unwilling to talk about something that they feel guilty or embarrassed about. Mr Alexander is not the slightest bit coy about his ambitions. = reticent + coyly coy·ly The administration coyly refused to put a firm figure on the war's costs