Coquetry
[kɒkitri]
Definition
(n.) Attempts to attract admiration, notice, or love, for the mere gratification of vanity; trifling in love.
Editor: Lorna
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Flirtation, affectation of love.
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Examples
- If I do--Well, said madame, drawing a breath and nodding her head with a stern kind of coquetry, I'll use it! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- I should be disposed to refer coquetry to another source, said Mr. Bulstrode. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Symptoms of a lumbering coquetry became visible in her, and Archer found the strength to break in: But Madame Olenska--has she gone to Newport too? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Do you think Miss Ingram will not suffer from your dishonest coquetry? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Excuse me, I must believe this language is mere nonsense and coquetry. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I became the victim of ingratitude and cold coquetry--then I desponded, and imagined that my discontent gave me a right to hate the world. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Her face brightened at this, but she drew her hand away, not with a gesture of coquetry, but as though renouncing something to which she had no claim. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- She had drawn him on and put him off again, with the coquetry of a young girl. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
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