coquettish

Example Sentences

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"There's this coquettish kind of bravery I discovered in my teens, a thrill at being the first person to engage a romance," she explains.

From BBC

And Burns nearly steals the second act in her brief solo, “Memory,” a coquettish dream of past flames.

From New York Times

Shy, bold, coquettish or mocking, a woman’s smile is richly signifying, something that Wilde, an actress turned director, certainly knows.

From New York Times

She’s a knowing adult reflecting on the sexual abuse she endured, a shrinking child, a coquettish yet whip-smart 17 year old; Parker acts her way through decades of Li’l Bit’s trauma with astute choreography.

From New York Times

He captures her coquettish coyness without caricaturing it.

From New York Times