How To Use coquettish In A Sentence
- This isn't helped a great deal by the characterisation of Lady Teazle: rather than manipulative coquettishness we get a slightly nervous adolescent.
- Besides that strength, Grandma Gitty also has a coquettishness about her like that of Cleopatra. Robert David Jaffee: 100 Is the New 70
- They sang syrupy love songs on one level, but on another they operated at an often haunting remove from their music that denied the kind of coquettish role they were intended to take on. Cokemachineglow.com
- Unlike the late Duke d'Orleans, he has no princely coquettishness, which is such a victorious grace, and has no desire to appear agreeable. The Memoirs of Victor Hugo
- According to John Knott, the French traveler, Le Vaillant, said that the more coquettish among the Hottentot girls are excited by extreme vanity to practice artificial elongation of the nympha and labia. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
- All about him my lord's clothing was strewn; Mechlin ruffles and cravats adorned one chair, silk hose another; gorgeous coats hung on their backs; shoes of every description, red-heeled and white, riding boots and slippers, stood in a row awaiting attention; wigs perched coquettishly on handy projections, and piles of white cambric shirts peeped out from an almost finished bag. The Black Moth: A Romance of the XVIII Century
- “Yes, Your Majesty,” Becka said coquettishly, leaning forward to afford him the best view and handing him the bottle. Exit the Actress
- But lacking form and rhythm, and convincing only in passages, they amount to a cloying coquettishness. The Shape of Things
- Under the bangs of a Dynel doll wig a "floozy" with nasolabial folds, male facial features and leathery skin mugs for the camera -- coquettish hair bow, mod sunglasses and gaudy plastic jewelry adorning her "look. Do You Suffer from Eyebrow Plucking Disease? Divorce?
- Karim Sulayman brought the slightly strained white sound of a high tenor to the ardent young male lead; and Meghan McCall (like Perry, an alum of the company's Young Artists Program) brought a honeylike soprano to her several roles, all coquettish and falling under the general heading of "love interest. Music: Opera Lafayette's 'Sancho Panca' reviewed by Anne Midgette