(v. t.) To attempt to attract the notice, admiration, or love of; to treat with a show of tenderness or regard, with a view to deceive and disappoint.
(v. i.) To trifle in love; to stimulate affection or interest; to play the coquette; to deal playfully instead of seriously; to play (with); as, we have coquetted with political crime.
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest White Beaked Dolphins at the Coquet to St Mary’s MCZ.
(2) Those delights include a colony of puffins on the beautifully named Coquet Island ; powdery sand on a beach straight outta Bermuda via the North Sea, and not another soul to share it with; ancient fragments from the age of the Venerable Bede; craggy castles lorded over by the Percys of Northumberland; tight-knit towns of huddled stone cottages and Norman churches; and, best of all, Spurelli’s ice-cream parlour in Amble.
Coquettish
Definition:
(a.) Practicing or exhibiting coquetry; alluring; enticing.
Example Sentences:
(1) Washington has long been a fan of the petro-dollar and Obama is proving another fickle enthusiast, flirting with the industry one moment, even as he snaps at it the next – like the coquettish mistress of an oil tycoon.
(2) … Teenage girls posed coquettishly with the men in balaclavas.
(3) Miliband, he said, was a great advocate of judge-led inquiries but "whenever someone asks questions about the Labour party there is a coquettish reticence".
(4) "She was nice and funny, always smiling, always well dressed despite her small salary, and somewhat coquettish."
(5) The women are sexy, coquettish, liberated and euphoric, caught up in what seems at times to be a sexual game among themselves.
(6) Teenage girls posed coquettishly with the men in balaclavas.
(7) It opens as Aileen (Theron) meets Selby (Christina Ricci), a young, coquettish, rather callow lesbian.
(8) Please click here to watch the video Special to Galván, too, is the rapid, improvisatory quality of his choreography, shifting from staccato speed to resonating stillness in a single phrase and pushing movement through a kaleidoscope of dynamics: the bow-strung profile that releases into a sensual three-dimensional torque (1.19); the muscular force that yields to near coquettish grace in his final pose, where his fingers splay like a fan.
(9) Michael Gove, the education secretary, said the Conservatives did not want a dirty election campaign but claimed: "Whenever anyone asks questions about the Labour party, Ed Miliband has a sort of coquettish reticence," referring to Miliband's refusal to answer questions on Labour's approach to the Co-op and allegations of vote-rigging by the Unite union in Falkirk.
(10) Jones is dressed in a black flying suit and airman’s hat, and there are no signs of diva behaviour, unless you count the occasional coquettish eye-slide or languorous drawl.
(11) Immediately warm and welcoming, she is disarmingly coquettish.
(12) I don't," says Dominic Cooper, dipping a biscuit coquettishly into his cappuccino froth, "take roles where I keep my clothes on."
(13) People like flirtatiousness because it conveys some possibility, it's not just a coquettish, Renaissance thing that you do, for politeness, like holding open a door.
(14) Brady used her position as the league's only female chief executive to her advantage, according to a source who saw her operate at the time: "She can be very charming with blokes of a certain age and, though I hesitate to say it, vaguely coquettish."
(15) With Kenneth Williams in the Feydeau farce Signed and Sealed, she did cause one critic to say that her coquettish flouncing as an eager bride was not as funny as Mount the awesome matriarch; but her first appearance at the National Theatre, in Goldini's Il Campiello, was praised.