Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a coquettish manner.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a coquettish manner.

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  • adverb In a coquettish manner, flirtatiously.

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  • adverb in a flirtatious manner

Etymologies

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coquettish +‎ -ly.

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Examples

  • Still, "-- coquettishly, --" that is no reason why I should look coldly upon all commoners. "

    Molly Bawn Margaret Wolfe Hamilton

  • Liverpool and Tottenham are both sitting slightly too close to Lyon's Lisandro López, flicking their hair coquettishly and laughing a bit too loudly at his jokes.

    Football transfer rumours: Glen Johnson to Juventus? Barney Ronay 2010

  • And well she knew, yet coquettishly surrounded herself with a ring of women whenever the men were away and he had a chance.

    The Sun of the Wolf 2010

  • I MUST proceed with the three other points of my letter, so I shall stay here and write, though there is a sharp breeze this morning and a coquettishly escaping sunlight, and something tugs at me to go out upon the city streets.

    The Kempton-Wace Letters 2010

  • One of them, deliciously and roguishly handsome as a faun, with the eyes of a faun, wore a flaming double-hibiscus bloom coquettishly tucked over his ear.

    THE BONES OF KAHEKILI 2010

  • Some of us Christians coquettishly take the hand of a person drowning or slipping from a perch and jerk them into a horror chamber of shame and blame or let go just when safe landing seems reachable.

    Rev. Dr. Cindi Love: The Slippery Slope Of Christendom During Advent Rev. Dr. Cindi Love 2011

  • No wonder the other players feel queasy as they sit in the background pretending to play canasta and desperately hoping the ambassador will send in some chocolate before JT begins fluttering his eyelashes and giggling coquettishly about his ice cubes melting.

    Footballers' Spring launched by revolting players | Harry Pearson 2012

  • “Aisle 5,” she said, batting her eyelashes coquettishly.

    How to Score With Freudian Chicks Con Chapman 2011

  • Some of us Christians coquettishly take the hand of a person drowning or slipping from a perch and jerk them into a horror chamber of shame and blame or let go just when safe landing seems reachable.

    Rev. Dr. Cindi Love: The Slippery Slope Of Christendom During Advent Rev. Dr. Cindi Love 2011

  • And well she knew, yet coquettishly surrounded herself with a ring of women whenever the men were away and he had a chance.

    The Son of the Wolf 2010

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