coquette

Example Sentences

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The track cemented Thalía’s Latin music star status — an innocent, sexy and cheeky coquette brand was born.

From Los Angeles Times

McCarthy observes that he is “a transvestite’s and fetishist’s dream of alluring ambiguity … a provocative coquette of a boy.”

From New York Times

The powerful, complex female lead was a rarity in traditional music theatre, where operatic tropes were easily assimilated, such as the virginal naif, the coquette, the old shrew.

From Salon

Corrin immediately achieves a balance between the coquette and energetic idealist we picture Diana to be, and her performance invites the viewer into the Princess's interiority almost immediately.

From Salon

Sexy did not mean revealing skin or playing the part of the coquette.

From Washington Post