(n.) Attempts to attract admiration, notice, or love, for the mere gratification of vanity; trifling in love.
Example Sentences:
(1) With the adult coquetry situation, one observes the female playfully behaving as if she were the child mimicking the infant-mother prototype.
Flirtation
Definition:
(n.) Playing at courtship; coquetry.
Example Sentences:
(1) More likely though was that the Foreign Office, which has deep misgivings about the flirtation, would now seek to reassert its control over China policy and cool relations with the world’s second-largest economy.
(2) Before what is bound to be a gossip-fuelled party conference season in which Lib Dem flirtation with Labour (and vice versa) will be added to the mix of plotting, irresistible visions of the future home into view.
(3) They argue it is facing a funding crisis of up to £150m a year because it has embarked on failed business ventures, including an expensive flirtation with digital radio, and spent too much on US imports.
(4) George Osborne’s brief post-referendum flirtation with a low corporation tax regime was ended by his sacking in July.
(5) Often, Hofer’s flirtation with the iconography and language of the National Socialist movement has been far from covert.
(6) Erdogan's regional foreign policy initiatives, his flirtation with Iran, his split with Israel, and his courting of supposedly suspect countries such as Syria have led western commentators to speculate about a "strategic realignment" in Turkish policy, away from the west and Nato and towards the Arab and Muslim worlds, in parallel with the AKP's pursuit of a neo-Islamist agenda at home.
(7) In a blog published on Friday afternoon entitled "My teenage mistakes" , Weldon said his year-long flirtation would have remained the embarrassing stuff of his youth had he not a few years later done what he described as a "dumb thing" and boasted about his past in an Oxford student newspaper.
(8) Only the flirtation between Shirley and Phil offered any comedy.
(9) A controversial Daily Star front page, with the headline "English Defence League to become a political party", was "not a flirtation, but a wake-up call", he insists, and Desmond, whose Jewishness is never far from his thinking, says it would be ridiculous for him to back far-right politics.
(10) James Milner is yet to accept the offer of a new contract and may well use his free agent status to move to a club that can offer more regular first-team starts, and Yaya Touré has begun his annual flirtation with the transfer market via the unsubtle declarations of his agent.
(11) Clegg's shift in affection follows similar flirtation between senior members of his party and Labour, notably Ed Balls, in recent months.
(12) Women waited, made ourselves presentable, and hoped flirtations with the object of our interest would lead to an ask-out.
(13) 8.02pm BST Summary Here's a summary of where things stand: • The president lamented damage from the government shutdown and flirtation with default .
(14) These have been described as including: vanity, 'buzz', flirtation, a sense of power and control and professional advantage during employment within the MPS or to gain future employment elsewhere."
(15) Jonathan Arnott said the fracas placed a cloud over both Woolfe and Hookem: “Surely they can’t now consider that either of them could stand in a leadership contest.” Gerard Batten said he was disappointed Woolfe had left the meeting rather than answer questions over his flirtation with the Conservatives: “A Ukip MEP who is prepared to even discuss defection to another party is not fit to run as leader of Ukip.” Describing Thursday’s incident, Hookem said a meeting of Ukip MEPs had become heated when Woolfe, a contender to replace Diane James as party leader, was asked about his admission he had considered defecting to the Conservatives .
(16) Excerpts from the diary show him to be a liberal-minded man and one fond of the company of young people; and show Betty to be a sprightly young Quakeress, buffeted by emotional conflicts between loyalty to her north-country fiance and her flirtation with young Dr. John Coakley Lettsom.
(17) Policy makers had a brief flirtation with Keynes back in the winter of 2008-09, but are now intent on cutting deficits and balancing budgets.
(18) Updated at 7.14pm BST 6.58pm BST The flirtation with default has inspired some colorful analogies .
(19) Norman is understood to take a dim view of their vocal interference in the chief executive search, and particularly the flirtation with former BSkyB boss Tony Ball.
(20) - and trades favourite Hank moments (his being Kingsley's ill-fated, careerist flirtation with Judaism).