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a woman who is casually playful in a way that arouses sexual interest of men, but does not imply serious sexual interestMuch more rarely, coquette can refer to a species of bird or to a city name.
- Her early roles limited her to the decorative coquette, but she had a breakout role in...
coquette = a woman who is casually playful in a way that arouses sexual interest of men
- He introduced Bette Midler (pronounced bet) by saying, Bette rhymes with coquette, but never regret.
- I congratulate you Mr. Vernon on being about to receive into your family, the most accomplished coquette in England.Jane Austen -- Lady Susan
- Sometimes she works as an actress, but she is always a coquette.
- She is an aging coquette too slow to change her tactics.
- She is coquettishly fanning herself with an ornate oriental fan,Lorraine Hansberry -- A Raisin in the Sun
- That's all I was: a terrible flirt, coquettish and amusing.Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl
- One, she's hardworking; two, cheerful; three, coquettish — and sometimes a cute face.Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl
- Smile coquettishly, pretend you know everything, offer everyone a piece of advice and mother them — that's sure to make a good impression.Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl
- Add to that, vanity and coquettishness and there's no question about it: she's a thoroughly despicable person.Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl
- I've learned two new words: "brothel" and "coquette."Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl
- But this young girl was not a coquette in that sense; she was very unsophisticated; she was only a pretty American flirt.Henry James -- Daisy Miller
- She thought she had a good deal of the coquette in her, and I've no doubt that with time and training she would have become a very dangerous little person, but now she was far too transparent and straightforward by nature even to tell a white lie cleverly.Louisa May Alcott -- An Old-Fashioned Girl
- Small fish took coquettish liberties with him.Arundhati Roy -- The God of Small Things
- He put his head on one side, his smile became almost coquettish.Aldous Huxley -- Brave New World
- 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.Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Love in the Time of Cholera
- If another woman makes eyes at me, she'll refuse to know a coquette.George Bernard Shaw -- Man And Superman
- Mother Catherine has a most coquettish little toilet-table, with something that looked uncommonly like a bottle of eau-de-Cologne.Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volumes 1 & 2
- She coquettishly dipped her lashes.Marissa Meyer -- Cinder
- Pippa grins coquettishly at the others.Libba Bray -- Sweet Far Thing
coquette = a woman who is casually playful in a way that arouses sexual interest of men
coquette = a woman who is casually playful in a way that arouses sexual interest of men
coquette = a woman who is casually playful in a way that arouses sexual interest of men
coquette = a woman who is casually playful in a way that arouses sexual interest of men
coquettishly = in a manner that playfully and casually arouses sexual interest of men
(Editor's note: 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.)
coquettish = casually playful in a way that arouses sexual interest of men
(Editor's note: Adding the suffix "-ish" means having the characteristics of. This is the same pattern you see in words like childish and foolish.)
coquettish = casually playful in a way that arouses sexual interest of men
(Editor's note: Adding the suffix "-ish" means having the characteristics of. This is the same pattern you see in words like childish and foolish.)
coquettishly = in a playful manner that arouses sexual interest of men
(Editor's note: 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.)
coquettishness = the quality of being casually playful in a way that arouses sexual interest of men
(Editor's note: 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.)
coquette = a woman who is casually playful in a way that arouses sexual interest of men
coquette = a woman who is casually playful in a way that arouses sexual interest of men
coquette = a woman who is casually playful in a way that arouses sexual interest of men
(Editor's note: Adding the suffix "-ish" means having the characteristics of. This is the same pattern you see in words like childish and foolish.)
(Editor's note: Adding the suffix "-ish" means having the characteristics of. This is the same pattern you see in words like childish and foolish.)
(Editor's note: 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.)
(Editor's note: Adding the suffix "-ish" means having the characteristics of. This is the same pattern you see in words like childish and foolish.)
(Editor's note: 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.)
(Editor's note: 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.)