coquet

Example Sentences

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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

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

From Roger Ingleton, Minor by Reed, Talbot Baines

If she really loved him, would she coquet with him like this—would she so pretend?

From The Hoyden by Duchess

I am not quite the heartless coquet I seem.

From Flora Lyndsay or, Passages in an Eventful Life by Moodie, Susanna

The petty kings themselves began now to coquet with Tehrak, and to invite his co-operation in an attempt, which they promised they would make, to throw off the yoke of the Assyrians.

From Ancient Egypt by Rawlinson, George