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

I am not quite the heartless coquet I seem.

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

"The second is richer, but your choice c'est plus coquet."

From White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

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

Her proud obstinacy was not capable of that; she was not one of those sympathetic, dependent women who like to make little blunders so as to be able to coquet with their charming penitence.

From Felix Lanzberg's Expiation by Schubin, Ossip