(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.
Flirting
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flirt
Example Sentences:
(1) Some in the industry expect buyouts from big internet companies like Google, which was rumoured to have flirted with WhatsApp earlier this year.
(2) Trump and his wife, Melania, descended an escalator into the basement lobby of the Trump Tower on 16 June 2015, for an announcement many observers said would never come: the celebrity real estate developer, who had flirted with running for office in the past, would announce that he was launching his campaign for the GOP presidential nomination.
(3) The woman from Lesotho alleges one guard who flirted with her in 2009 is still working there because a friend had complained to her about the same man when she was released from Yarl's Wood earlier this month.
(4) In her first straight dramatic role, albeit one with comedy elements, Hart has proved a hit: Chummy's awkward flirting with Constable Noakes, wobbly cycling and surprise medical ability delighting the show's more than 10 million viewers.
(5) Some bands delight in producing music that flirts with dangerous themes.
(6) A well-known conservative, Ditka publicly flirted with running against Democratic candidate Barack Obama, then a state senator, for the open seat in the US Senate vacated by Illinois senator Peter Fitzgerald in 2004.
(7) The slick advert, released this week, shows a young couple flirting at a polling site , before the woman grabs the man by the neck and pulls him into the election booth as heavy breaths accompany a techno soundtrack.
(8) Burnham said “a language of xenophobia has entered the lexicon” of British politics and that many politicians were flirting with racism.
(9) Click here to view Ingrid Jungermann's "homoneurotic" Kickstarter-funded webseries sees "internally homophobic" lesbian Ingrid panic-spiral about everything, from attending trans parties to flirting with bar staff.
(10) Sapp flirts with apocalyptic rhetoric on the way to the conclusion that Trump recognizes no power higher than his own ego.
(11) At the same time, don’t we want our pop stars to at least flirt with irresponsibility?
(12) You’ve already seen the first sorties: since the separation of powers is the longest-standing of American ideas, the tweeted hostility to a “so-called judge” crosses a line only Richard Nixon ever flirted with.
(13) Faced with a rapidly ageing society, skyrocketing housing prices, low birth rates and a population that works the longest hours in the world, this country of 5.3 million people has made various attempts over the years to encourage its citizens to marry and procreate, from government-funded speed-dating schemes to educational flyers on how to flirt.
(14) But if Facebook flirts too brazenly with commercial partners, it may see its growth slow down dramatically.
(15) They seem to flirt with the idea of replacing democratic institutions.
(16) Even one journalist in a gay bar has to work hard not to spoil the party, so the poor Russians who came in on Friday and Saturday night for a peaceful drink and a flirt must have felt like animals in a zoo.
(17) Both were then publicly flirting with a presidential bid but neither Palin nor Trump eventually threw their hat in the ring.
(18) He dropped out to set up Rawkus Records with friends, before his father enticed him into the family business, offering him the chance to run internet businesses at a time when the world's big media groups were first flirting with the online world.
(19) As a director, too, Hytner has continued to flirt with multiple identities.
(20) West Ham's manager of three years, who steered the team to a 13th-place finish this season after flirting with relegation for long periods, held talks with the co-chairman David Sullivan on Tuesday amid grumbling supporters' discontent at the style of football the side have played.