coquetry
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Attracted to Mandy’s curly hair, he sat beside her and, in an attempt at coquetry, opened an H.P.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 16, 2022
From Joan’s sincere coquetry at the Avon lunch, to Peggy’s surveillance techniques and expert game-playing, Joan and Peggy leaned over so hard they threatened to overturn the whole damn office.
From Time ● Jun. 3, 2013
Yet she allows Olga a shyly experimental coquetry, a blind dazzle in her eyes that also speaks touchingly of youth and vulnerability.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 21, 2013
Her exquisite oval face — framed by short, lank, unwashed-looking hair — is as devoid of a diva’s coquetry as it is of makeup.
From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2012
Mrs. Bogle who was many times a grandmother, but had a blushing air of coquetry about her that cloaked her sunken cheeks.
From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston
Claire, not very inexplicably, fell in love with this quiet sardonic man who gently criticized the coquetries she was distributing between a young Fascist and a pair of shady young Neapolitan noblemen.
From Time Magazine Archive
He should know, since it is his right arm that wriggles Miss Piggy through her black-belt coquetries.
From Time Magazine Archive
But, such traditional little coquetries aside, the fight was really on; punches were given & taken, toe to toe.
From Time Magazine Archive
At her friend's, so to speak, posthumous coquetries, Mme.
From Artist and Model (The Divorced Princess) by Ren? de Pont-Jest
Against her probable future in this rough camp, how small the present looked, how little were her coquetries, her innocent wiles!
From The Westerners by Stewart Edward White
