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Definition of coquettish in English: coquettishadjective kəˈkɛtɪʃkoʊˈkɛdɪʃ Behaving in such a way as to suggest a playful sexual attraction; flirtatious. Example sentencesExamples - Benatar had a rough-hewn sexuality; John was coquettish and irksomely cute.
- Peering out from behind a helmet of black hair, she is stylish but not styled, neither coquettish sex kitten nor guitar-toting tomboy.
- The bedroom scenes with a playful and coquettish Cariola show the duchess and Antonio's fragile happiness and the sensuality of their love.
- He was cute, coquettish - almost the girl of the group - so how could he be smart?
- In common with Alcoholics Anonymous, the manual encourages her to face up to the extent of her mendacity and list her lies, an exercise which allows Porter to go through a series of coquettish and flirty set pieces.
Synonyms flirtatious, flirty, provocative, seductive, inviting, amorous, kittenish, coy, arch, teasing, playful, frisky, flighty, skittish, dallying, philandering informal come-hither, vampish
Derivativesadverb They saw how she tucked her face down, all dimpling and demure, fingers toying coquettishly with the straw in her Coca-Cola. Example sentencesExamples - By placing her hand on her hip and coquettishly pushing her shoulder forward, Kimberly is subtly drawing attention to herself.
- A 1926 portrait of her nymph daughter Kizette, coquettishly posed, offers the girl as a blonde lamb to the voyeur's gaze.
- A couple of cameramen and a photographer from Elle arrive to capture the backstage atmosphere, and the girls switch on the charm, posing coquettishly in twos and threes.
- Failing that, they painted erotic studies of fancy women in their best finery, coquettishly revealing their ankles.
noun Suwage's realist paintings are not just imitations or transfers of reality, there is coquettishness, humor, sarcasm, satire as well as condemnation of the situation around us. Example sentencesExamples - He prescribed vanity and coquettishness to cure societal ills, and it worked, for a string of fifteen top ten hit songs.
- Taking a break between scenes, Carmína Riego, the actress who plays Señora Galindo, says that her big-haired, flouncy character is an exaggerated version of Chilean female coquettishness.
- This isn't helped a great deal by the characterisation of Lady Teazle: rather than manipulative coquettishness we get a slightly nervous adolescent.
- There is also a coquettishness about her gaze, which suggests that this painting may be intended to be something of an in-joke.
Definition of coquettish in US English: coquettishadjectivekōˈkediSHkoʊˈkɛdɪʃ Behaving in such a way as to suggest a playful sexual attraction; flirtatious. Example sentencesExamples - Benatar had a rough-hewn sexuality; John was coquettish and irksomely cute.
- Peering out from behind a helmet of black hair, she is stylish but not styled, neither coquettish sex kitten nor guitar-toting tomboy.
- The bedroom scenes with a playful and coquettish Cariola show the duchess and Antonio's fragile happiness and the sensuality of their love.
- In common with Alcoholics Anonymous, the manual encourages her to face up to the extent of her mendacity and list her lies, an exercise which allows Porter to go through a series of coquettish and flirty set pieces.
- He was cute, coquettish - almost the girl of the group - so how could he be smart?
Synonyms flirtatious, flirty, provocative, seductive, inviting, amorous, kittenish, coy, arch, teasing, playful, frisky, flighty, skittish, dallying, philandering
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