coquettish

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I was coquettish, as charming as with a man, alternately caressing and severe.

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  1. Like a coquette; of or pertaining to or characterized by or practising coquetry. A coquettish manner. H. Swinburne, Travels through Spain. She meant to weave me a snare Of some coquettish deceit. Tennyson, Maud, vi.

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  • As an intentional contrast to Hackman as Doyle, Fernando Rey is wonderfully coquettish, a term not often used to describe males much less those of the drug smuggling variety, playing Charnier. —  DVD Times
  • "Nice, gentle, good women never attract you; you only care for bold Vivacious, coquettish, attractive little widows, like one I once knew," said the Colonel, laughing, as he carefully wiped his gray moustache You are really too absurd!" —  A Crooked Path A Novel
  • The girl gave her head an indescribable toss, at once vicious, coquettish, and triumphant. —  The Debtor A Novel
  • Naturally, dear Julius, Don Juan, Zerlina, Leporello, Massetto_, are the dramatis persona; Zerlina's answer in the theme has a sufficiently enamored character; the first variation expresses, a kind of coquettish coveteousness: the Spanish Grandee flirts amiably with the peasant girl in it. —  Great Violinists And Pianists
  • But she had not the least idea of what was going on with me, any more than I myself had I think, Master Ridd, you cannot know," she said, with her eyes taken from me, "what the dangers of this place are, and the nature of the people Yes, I know enough of that; and I am frightened greatly, all the time, when I do not look at you She was too young to answer me in the style some maidens would have used; the manner, I mean, which now we call from a foreign word "coquettish." —  Lorna Doone A Romance of Exmoor
 

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