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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
flirtatious
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Graham plays Benedict's flirtatious daughter.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Cressida's action is in keeping with her flirtatious character, which she herself can analyse: Troilus, farewell.
▪ Emily was looking at me in a way I found frankly flirtatious.
▪ He remembered Lisette's flushed, flirtatious look and the way she had taken his hand and placed it on her body.
▪ His manner was mildly flirtatious and he had a tendency to glance in my direction, showing off, I suspect.
▪ Let them play their flirtatious games.
▪ This one was of the old school: giddy and flirtatious.
▪ Try just exchanging some attention: see if you can exchange a smile and a flirtatious glance with him.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
flirtatious

1834, from flirtation + -ous. Related: Flirtatiously; flirtatiousness.

Wiktionary
flirtatious

a. 1 Of or pertaining to flirtation. 2 (context of a person English) Having a tendency to flirt often.

WordNet
flirtatious

adj. like a coquette [syn: coquettish]

Usage examples of "flirtatious".

For all her obviousness, she was no fool, after a few minutes she switched her flirtatious ness to Ron sard, who smiled and flattered her, all the while with that look of amusement still in his eyes.

They refrain from having sex with them, tease them and then leave them, resist flirtatious and seductive behaviours and so on.

He nearly collided with a flirtatious androgyne in a very revealing costume who gave him a brazen wink before continuing along.

She turned her head slightly, tried a complicit smile bordering on the flirtatious.

He wrestled, swam, skated, and hunted with his rifle in the woods, and, due to “an amourous disposition” from the age often until he entered college, spent as much time as he could in the flirtatious company of girls.

Victoria poised prettily between Goodfellow and Bongo-Shaftsbury, attempting to maintain a kind of flirtatious equilibrium.