flirtation

IPA: fɫɝtˈeɪʃʌn

noun

  • Playing at courtship; coquetry.
  • An instance of flirting.
  • A period of experimentation with or interest in a particular idea or activity.
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Examples of "flirtation" in Sentences

  • Griffey's on-again, off-again flirtation with the disabled list has limited him to 26 games and two home runs.
  • I suspect its some kind of puritan overcompensation for their long-term flirtation with those wicked, wicked Kennedy boys.
  • And what would a ball be without this undercurrent of what we call flirtation; in reality, this yearning for the one in the multitude.
  • I do not affect the word flirtation, but the thing itself is not half so criminal as one would think from the animadversions visited upon it.
  • If I thought you didn't care, that you were just trying to carry on the ghastly game they call flirtation up here, I wouldn't be so angry with you.
  • There's no reason to impugn the reputations of any of those names above, save A-Rod, who admitted what he called a flirtation with PEDs a few years ago.
  • From my psychotherapeutic activity, I know too well how much vileness and perversity are gently covered by the term flirtation nowadays in the circle of those who have learned early to conceal the traces.
  • The failing to do this is the greatest mistake of the present generation, for if girls be capable of nothing but morbid sentiment or what we term flirtation, they will naturally look to matrimony as their destiny and as a means of support -- a self-abasement from which no woman can fully recover, even under the most favorable circumstances.

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