Coquetry

(n.) Attempts to attract admiration, notice, or love, for the mere gratification of vanity; trifling in love.

编辑:洛娜

• If I do--Well, said madame, drawing a breath and nodding her head with a stern kind of coquetry, I'll use it! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• I should be disposed to refer coquetry to another source, said Mr. Bulstrode. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• 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? 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• Do you think Miss Ingram will not suffer from your dishonest coquetry? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Excuse me, I must believe this language is mere nonsense and coquetry. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• 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. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• 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. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• She had drawn him on and put him off again, with the coquetry of a young girl. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.

录入:米歇尔