Sample Sentences for
coquette
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    You, mi napita, you'll be our little coquette.  (source)
    coquette = a woman who is casually playful in a way that arouses sexual interest of men but does not imply serious flirtation
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    She coquettishly dipped her lashes.  (source)
    coquettishly = in a way that arouses sexual interest of men, but does not imply serious flirtation
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    She put on a high, coquettish voice very unlike her own.  (source)
    coquettish = casually playful in a way that arouses sexual interest of men but does not imply serious flirtation
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    The planetologist's odd question seemed to have gone unnoticed by the others, and now Kynes was bending over one of the consort women, listening to a low-voiced coquetry.†  (source)
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    "I am so des-per-ate-ly sorry to have kept you waiting," she purred in a soft, coquettish drawl.  (source)
    coquettish = casually playful in a way that arouses sexual interest of men but does not imply serious flirtation
    standard suffix: Adding the suffix "-ish" means having the characteristics of. This is the same pattern you see in words like childish and foolish.
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    I've watched women flirt with men all my life, and I've become goddam good at playing the coquette.  (source)
    coquette = a woman who is casually playful in a way that arouses sexual interest of men but does not imply serious flirtation
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    "So," she says, coquettishly, "what do you say for yourself, Timur?"  (source)
    coquettishly = in a way that playfully arouses sexual interest of men but does not imply serious flirtation
    standard suffix: Adding the suffix "-ishly" means in a manner having the characteristics of. This is the same pattern you see in words like childishly and foolishly.
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    The men came in out of the cold in high clumsy snow boots, and every one of them, without exception, did his best to look like a country bumpkin; but their wives, on the contrary, their faces glowing from the frost, coats unbuttoned, shawls pushed back and hair spangled with rime, looked like hardened coquettes, cunning itself.†  (source)
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    He insisted, with labored breath, and she offered him her other cheek, with a coquettishness that he had not known when she was a schoolgirl.  (source)
    coquettishness = a casually playfulness in a way that arouses sexual interest of men but does not imply serious flirtation
    editor's notes: Adding "-ishness" to coquette means the state of having the characteristics of a coquette. This is the same pattern you see in words like childishness and foolishness. Note that when "-ish" is placed at the end of a word that ends in "E", the "E" is often dropped as in nightmarish and vulturish.
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    And yet I clung to him all the same, or to the mask of him that was already falling away, clung to his coquetting with the spiritual, to his bourgeois horror of the disorderly and accidental (to which death, too, belonged) and compared the new Harry—the somewhat timid and ludicrous dilettante of the dance rooms—scornfully and enviously with the old one in whose ideal and lying portrait he had since discovered all those fatal characteristics which had upset him that night so grievously in the professor's print of Goethe.†  (source)
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    Madame coquetted with him in the most captivating and naive manner, with eyes, gestures, and a profusion of compliments, till the Colonel's old head felt thirty years younger on his padded shoulders.†  (source)
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    James and Isabella led the way; and so well satisfied was the latter with her lot, so contentedly was she endeavouring to ensure a pleasant walk to him who brought the double recommendation of being her brother's friend, and her friend's brother, so pure and uncoquettish were her feelings, that, though they overtook and passed the two offending young men in Milsom Street, she was so far from seeking to attract their notice, that she looked back at them only three times.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in uncoquettish means not and reverses the meaning of coquettish. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    Mrs. Bogle who was many times a grandmother, but had a blushing air of coquetry about her that cloaked her sunken cheeks.†  (source)
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