coquettish

Example Sentences

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More damagingly, it doesn’t seem as if Hnath’s Nora has evolved all that much from the skittishly coquettish wife of Ibsen’s play.

From Los Angeles Times

She crooned his name in a coquettish melisma, inviting him to “tell me how you want me, you look like you want it” while he melted into a puddle.

From Los Angeles Times

"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