coquetry

Example Sentences

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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

She is not at all prim and demure; on the contrary, she is genially expressive, the kind of woman who being devoid of coquetry behaves as she feels.

From The Guardian • Jul. 27, 2012

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

Sometimes she looked at Wang Lung, fully and without coquetry as a child does, and he watched her and was proud of what he had done.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck