Preposition: about

• convergence: Yet the Government is strangely coy about this convergence on Euroland's levels of pension spending.

• thing: Paul was rather coy about the whole thing, although I did manage to extract a few small pieces of information out of him.

Modifying Another Word

• somewhat: The White Paper is somewhat coy on how these problems will be overcome in practice.

• rather: The legs make it look rather coy, I think.

• too: No, Solaris is just too coy for such a command.

• so: So why is Mel B so coy about joining in the fun?

• little: Needless to say, these businesses are a little coy about this recent bit of history.

• very: However, we found they were a very coy lot.

Preposition: on

• subject: The birthday tributes are astonishingly coy on this subject.

Modifies a noun

• card-playing: Be on a that these human her coy card-playing be held in.

• smile: Andrew immediately warmed too the little girl for her coy smile that came straight off an old Pears Soap advert.

• euphemism: Don't they mean the ' front bottom ' or some other coy euphemism.

• look: Unseemly chases with much flapping give way to tender moments of neck stretching, coy looks and more moaning.

• reference: Mrs McM: oh, it's all those coy references to ' we ' .

Used with adjective complement

• remain: Apart from the bit you wish to remain coy about, I agree with you wholeheartedly.

• play: The best part for me was dressing up as a local Indian village girl and playing coy with Aamir at twilight.

• look: I think Mother looks most coy doesn't she?

• get: Also most posts tend to mention gloss work and seem to get coy with matt, which is of concern.

• sound: Fashionable jargon changes with the seasons, but usually manages to sound coy, mannered, and then after a point, dowdy.