coquet

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

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

The simplicity of the remedy is so attractive that it is not surprising that the Governments of industrial nations should coquet from time to time with the policy of compulsory arbitration.

From The Acquisitive Society by Tawney, R. H.

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

Even to the end she would deck herself and coquet to her glass.

From At a Winter's Fire by Capes, Bernard Edward Joseph

Have I played the coquet with you, Juancho?

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