coquet
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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
Her proud obstinacy was not capable of that; she was not one of those sympathetic, dependent women who like to make little blunders so as to be able to coquet with their charming penitence.
From Felix Lanzberg's Expiation by Ossip Schubin
“Peter ywotisk, Peter kekoosh, moyout win coquet talenque.”
From Wild Life in the Land of the Giants A Tale of Two Brothers by Gordon Stables
If she really loved him, would she coquet with him like this—would she so pretend?
From The Hoyden by Duchess
My private opinyun ov a coquet iz, that if they suckceed in dieing an old maid, they don’t deserve all the punishment they receive.
From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Henry W. Shaw
Madame coquetted with him in the most captivating and naive manner, with eyes, gestures, and a profusion of compliments, till the Colonel’s old head felt thirty years younger on his padded shoulders.
From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin
It was evident that Terence had coquetted with them merely to study their plans.
From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield
She should have remembered he was not to be coquetted with.
From Dreamers of the Ghetto by Israel Zangwill
Away to the westward irregular fragments of thundercloud, which seemed incapable of cohering sufficiently to produce a storm, coquetted with the quivering mountain-tops.
From By Veldt and Kopje by W. C. (William Charles) Scully
Peter glowed with rage to think all the world could penetrate this slight transparency; he burned with jealous fury as Eveline smiled, coquetted, cast glances here, there, and was stared at through a hundred opera-glasses.
From Black Diamonds by Mór Jókai
He must have been couching somewhere, the funny old rogue, behind the Pole; he must have been coquetting with the beauties of Greenland or Nova Zembla.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 4 by Various
More than the five o'clock tea affectation was to come of the new coquetting with English fashions.
From Our Philadelphia by Elizabeth Robins Pennell
In short he had given way to the belief that she had been coquetting with him.
From The White Gauntlet by Mayne Reid
But Heine is to our view always the same, always the representative of humor with "a laughing tear" in his escutcheon, always the poetic anomaly, coquetting with his pain and scoffing it away.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 by Various
A man coquetting with too many countries is as bad as a bigamist, and loses his soul altogether.
From The Letters of William James, Vol. II by William James
