coquetting

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With Heine, too, who at that time was coquetting with Communism, he carried on a sprightly and not unfruitful intercourse.

From The life and teaching of Karl Marx by Beer, M.

But strange to say, in 1830 we find Francis actually coquetting with revolution.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 8 "France" to "Francis Joseph I." by Various

Otherwise his career had been much like other careers, denouncing, or coquetting and even pressing for office, equable in expectation, and vindictive if refused.

From Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections by Rosebery, Archibald Phillip Primrose

More than the five o'clock tea affectation was to come of the new coquetting with English fashions.

From Our Philadelphia by Pennell, Elizabeth Robins

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 James, William