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Coquettishly cute—or “preppy,” as my 11-year-old daughter would say—is the prevailing look.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025

Coquettishly he exhibited the “poor Lelian” and the “bon enfant”—mere costumes of a poetical fire that had long died out.

From Paul Verlaine by Zweig, Stefan

I hear, too, as you come and go, That pretty nervous laugh, you know; And then your cap is always so Coquettishly displaced.

From New Poems by Stevenson, Robert Louis