coquet

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

They are, he thinks, dilettanti, sentimentalists, who coquet with the misery of the masses, in order to serve the same up well spiced and warmed to their luxurious and fashionable readers.

From The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 by Various

It is a place of fugitive resort, an heterogeneous assemblage of sea-mews and stockbrokers, Amphitrites of the town, and misses that coquet with the Ocean.

From Hastings and Neighbourhood by Walter Higgins

The coquet is sadly tempted to gather some of the flowers for her own use, but dares not.

From A Treatise on the Art of Dancing by Giovanni-Andrea Gallini

She laugh and make the mock at him, and play coquet with the others before his face.

From Roger Ingleton, Minor by Talbot Baines Reed

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

If Eloise d'Anville hadn't coquetted with young Creil I shouldn't be Commissioner here to-day, settling my account with Louis.

From One-Act Plays By Modern Authors by Various

They doubtless still coquetted with a certain sentimentality, but it seemed to me that with true sorrow true feeling had also vanished.

From A Twofold Life by Wilhelmine von Hillern

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

Footnote 17: A coquetting with virtue as a virtuoso, of course Gaspard means.

From Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) by Jean Paul

Eddying into every quiet bay, coquetting with every salient angle, moving to the melody of its own murmurs, it flows on serenely and musically.

From The Falls of Niagara and Other Famous Cataracts by George W. Holley

“You told me yourself in so many words that I was coquetting with myself.”

From The Locusts' Years by Mary Helen Fee

"Is she only coquetting with me?" he asked himself, "or--or--" A passionate joy throbbed in his veins, then suddenly an icy shudder ran over him.

From Asbe?n From the Life of a Virtuoso by Ossip Schubin

The conjurer twists first one, then two, butterflies out of a bit of white paper, and, by means of a fan, causes them to fly and poise as if they were coquetting with July breezes.

From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Julia Ward Howe