demure

The league had made a special point in recent years of keeping celebrations demure.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

They offered to introduce him to a demure, devoted woman.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

Others opt for the registry office and a demure lunch with close friends, and prefer to save their money for a house.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 25, 2025

In “The Penguin” Cristin Milioti’s Sofia Falcone marks her transition from the dutiful mobster’s demure daughter to a siren afire with vengeance.

From Salon ● Dec. 27, 2024

Mrs. Odom, who usually dressed in demure long dresses and straw hats, had on a pair of men’s overalls and an old plaid work shirt.

From "Stella by Starlight" by Sharon M. Draper

She bowed to him, and passed on in her grave and stately manner: more calmly observant, demurer eyes were not in the Park.

From Sunrise by William Black

Of course, if they be still exuberant, they may show it, and stamp their lustiest; still a demurer step will usually suggest itself as the more appropriate.

From The Morris Book, Part 1 A History of Morris Dancing, With a Description of Eleven Dances as Performed by the Morris-Men of England by Cecil J. Sharp

Cicely, six months younger, was much more quiet and steady on the surface, though her twinkling brown eyes belied her demurer manners, and proclaimed her ready for anything in the shape of fun.

From The Manor House School by Arthur A. Dixon

And you have seen a cat conscious of approaching cream: such was Miss Haythorn; she became demurer and demurer.

From Stories by English Authors: England by Thomas Hardy

The two visitors looked up in some surprise at Jessie’s boisterous entrance, for usually she was the demurest of creatures.

From The Campfire Girls on Station Island or, The Wireless from the Steam Yacht by Margaret Penrose

Or who in Moscow toward the Czar With the demurest of footfalls, Over the Kremlin's pavement white With serpentine and syenite, Steps with five other generals—" "That's no good.

From Stalky & Co. by Rudyard Kipling

“From London—but I’m not French, you know,” was the retort, with the demurest of demure smiles.

From The Heiress of Wyvern Court by Emilie Searchfield

She was the demurest of all in seeming when she danced, but she was uncontrollably jealous.

From We Can't Have Everything by Rupert Hughes

She was the demurest, dreamiest of the three girls; the most of a woman, and the least of a talker.

From The Old Folks' Party 1898 by Edward Bellamy