variants
or coquettes
as in flirts
to show a sexual attraction for someone just for fun
a group of college students coquetting with each other at the beach
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Recent Examples of coquets
Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 3 Mar. 2026
Verb
In an era of never-ending microtrends—office sirens, tomato girls, and coquettes among them—finding your style can feel like a Herculean task.
—Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 3 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for coquets
flirts
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While waiting for flights to resume, Charli’s character Bethany flirts with the idea of blowing up her life by rekindling a romance with an old friend who owns a flower shop in Warsaw.—
Cheyenne Roundtree,
Rolling Stone,
10 Feb. 2026
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Delivered with an ease that flirts with comedy, it can be taken as humor punctuating drama.—
JP Mangalindan,
Time,
27 Jan. 2026
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“Coquets.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coquets. Accessed 12 Mar. 2026.
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