coyest

This is one of the most sexually frank and at the same time coyest comics I have ever read.

Robot reviews: The Color of Earth | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment 2009

In short, my dear, you must then blandish him over with a confession, that all your past behaviour was maidenly reserve only: and it will be your part to convince him of the truth of his imprudent sarcasm, that the coyest maids make the fondest wives.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

She tossed her head and flicked her eyes and repeated her coyest smile.

An American Tragedy 2004

It was ere the two had recovered from their first paroxysm of laughter that Berry minced to the fireplace and, with the coyest of pecks, rang the electric bell.

Jonah and Co. Dornford Yates 1922

To appreciate Lamb, therefore, it is requisite that his character and temperament should be understood in their coyest and most wayward features.

The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III Various 1885

To appreciate Lamb, therefore, it is requisite that his character and temperament should be understood in their coyest and most wayward features.

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 Charles Dudley Warner 1864

Indeed, they fell in her way, where the access might have seemed difficult, by wonderful casualties; and the inveterate recluse, the coyest maid, the waywardest poet, made no resistance, but yielded at discretion, as if they had been waiting for her, all doors to this imperious dame.

Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli Ossoli, Margaret F 1851

Cynthias were, for the most part, and especially of late years, easy and light-won nymphs; their coyest were of another clay from the tender but lofty Sibyll.

The Last of the Barons — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

But then those Cynthias were, for the most part, and especially of late years, easy and light-won nymphs; their coyest were of another clay from the tender but lofty Sibyll.

The Last of the Barons — Volume 06 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

Indeed, they fell in her way, where the access might have seemed difficult, by wonderful casualties; and the inveterate recluse, the coyest maid, the waywardest poet, made no resistance, but yielded at discretion, as if they had been waiting for her, all doors to this imperious dame.

Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I Margaret Fuller 1830