Example Sentences

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Isolde is a mercurial character, and Ms. Davidsen expressed her simmering rage, her girlish flirtatiousness, and her serenity in the “Liebestod.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

The main notes in Gatwa’s performance are exuberance, joy, openness, flirtatiousness, cheekiness and a superabundance of energy.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2023

This is a healthy, appropriate relationship to have with an ex, and you should definitely think of it as mere flirtatiousness and not a weird, cruelty-tinged power game at all.

From Slate • Sep. 15, 2020

More than that, he wrote, she imbued the role with the hallmarks of a Darrieux performance: beauty, charm, flirtatiousness and vulnerability.

From Washington Post • Oct. 19, 2017

She was a middle-aged woman, without a trace of flirtatiousness, who walked with a slight shuffle and had lost the unwarranted gaiety that had made her so appealing in her youth.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende