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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While Courtney flirts with tattooed store clerk Chad (Wolfhard), Norman and Neil meet a trouble-making (and territorial) phantom kid.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
13 Oct. 2025 -
On screen, the character of Grofield flirts with danger the way an artist flirts with an audience.—
Okla Jones,
Essence,
9 Oct. 2025
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“Coquets.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coquets. Accessed 15 Oct. 2025.
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