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coquettishness

noun as in come-hither

noun as in friskiness

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“MJ” represents the 22-year-old Frost’s Broadway debut as he plays Jackson with a high, whispery voice, a Lady Diana-like coquettishness and a fierce embrace of Jackson’s iconic dancing and singing style.

Mary Bevan relied on cute bits instead of phrasing to convey Atalanta’s coquettishness but connected in the character’s wounded moments.

And so I carried on with my coquettishness until somehow the meals became fewer and farther between and then finally ended, probably because he took up with someone else.

She is still, at times, too forgiving — letting a young boy who himself had been abused off the hook for abusing her, acknowledging her own coquettishness as an excuse for a lech’s lechery, shrugging off what some may feel would have weighed them down for a lifetime.

She has studied videos, taking on the plumminess of Diana’s accent, the coquettishness of her walk, the tilt of her head, but it can only go so far.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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