coquet

Example Sentences

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A: I'm afraid I was a bit of a coquet in my youth, but now that I'm a grandmother with an 18-year-old granddaughter, I'm simplifying what I wear.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 1, 2010

They are, he thinks, dilettanti, sentimentalists, who coquet with the misery of the masses, in order to serve the same up well spiced and warmed to their luxurious and fashionable readers.

From The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 by Various

Have I played the coquet with you, Juancho?

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 by Various

I am not quite the heartless coquet I seem.

From Flora Lyndsay or, Passages in an Eventful Life by Moodie, Susanna

But no! she had drawn him on: not by coquetry—Audrey was far too high-minded to coquet with any man—but simply by the warm friendliness of her manner.

From Lover or Friend by Carey, Rosa Nouchette