(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.
Flirtatious
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) If the news that Wendi Deng had joined her husband Rupert Murdoch on Twitter and promptly engaged in flirtatious banter with the likes of Ricky Gervais seemed too good to be true, that's because it was.
(2) The slick Foxtons website shows packs of tanned, beaming, sometimes flirtatious staff holding beers, up mountains, playing beach volleyball.
(3) Scuccia, who is from Sicily, has sung alongside Kylie Minogue and Ricky Martin, while, a flirtatious panel judge, Italian rapper J-Ax, said she could be the "holy water" to his "devil".
(4) Several witnesses described Maureen McDonnell’s relationship with the wealthy vitamin executive as inappropriate and flirtatious.
(5) Johnson’s barrister, Orlando Pownall QC, wrote in a legal note shortly after the midfielder’s arrest that he admitted kissing the 15-year-old and sending her flirtatious messages.
(6) In Mansfield Park , Thomas Bertram boastfully describes his flirtatious behaviour in Ramsgate with the younger Miss Sneyd, whoever she be.
(7) But the Tory MP Penny Mordaunt said the Lib Dems were motivated by "spite, pettiness and self-interest" and were making "flirtatious glances" to Labour as potential coalition partners following the 2015 poll.
(8) Although she always rejected single issue politics as a distraction from socialism (like Margaret Thatcher, she was a politician who was also a woman - tough, flirtatious, vain, often hot tempered, capable of tears in moments of drama - rather than a woman politician) and she brutally dismissed recent attempts to make Westminster a kinder, gentler place, her most enduring achievements came on behalf of women.
(9) In person she's just as impressive – quick, perceptive and teasingly flirtatious – but she also reveals a vulnerability that takes not just me but herself by surprise.
(10) "For this reason, the question I am asked most frequently is why am I so against the 'harmlessly flirtatious' piropo .
(11) Weiner reportedly admitted to the Daily Mail that he had engaged in flirtatious exchanges with the girl but did not comment further on any of the specific allegations.
(12) In a fortnight’s time, the federal court was to begin deciding if the weirdly flirtatious relationship between the gay former PR for a strawberry farm and the then federal parliamentary Speaker, Peter Slipper, constituted sexual harassment.
(13) I will regularly post flirtatious comments on your timeline wall for all your Facebook friends to see."
(14) A rare and expensive lot up for auction on eBay this week provides epistolary evidence that the man-who-will-be-king was once a hot-blooded young sailor with an eye for the ladies and a knack for flirtatious correspondence.
(15) Other hit silent(ish) comedies included award-winning Aussie show The Hermitude of Angus , Ecstatic, and, best of all, a blissful set from that flirtatious clown Doctor Brown .
(16) She is the impeccably connected journalist turned television chef whose gourmet recipes and flirtatious on-screen presence earned her the nickname the "domestic goddess" and generated a fortune estimated at £15m.
(17) So it is with Boris Johnson , the most flirtatious practitioner of political brinksmanship in living memory.
(18) For mums and dads, the only option is to stand firm, turn off the telly, and try to persuade your issue that what they really want is a nice bit of cheddar, and not a spreadable cheese product flogged by a flirtatious cartoon farm animal.
(19) While the Bond films have moved away from the series' more cartoonish roots in the last decade, recent 007 entry Skyfall did reintroduce such classic characters as gadget man Q and M's flirtatious secretary, Moneypenny.
(20) As any journalist who has met her will attest, Courtney Love's brand of conversation is smart, funny and frank, but wildly unpredictable, leaping from one topic to another as dramatically as her mood changes: she can go from flirtatious to furious to diffident and back again in the space of a minute.