demurely

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Bragg’s prosecution team immediately objected, and Judge Juan Merchan sustained the objection, but not before Cohen could demurely respond “sounds like something I would do.”

From Slate • May 16, 2024

Minutes into “The Confessions,” a new production by the British playwright and director Alexander Zeldin, the main character, Alice, says demurely, “See, I’m not interesting. I have nothing of interest to tell.”

From New York Times • Oct. 4, 2023

Then she demurely follows the presenters, Roger Moore and Liv Ullman, offstage.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 23, 2022

Later in spring, bloom continues more demurely, when Magnolia wilsonii and M. sieboldii, a couple of Larson’s favorite species, produce fragrant, nodding white flowers with pink to crimson stamens.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 9, 2022

My Lord Cheldthorpe of the New Creation dropped my mother, and she dropped him, and looked away demurely, and I fell upon a chair.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson