demureness
Example Sentences
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“The demureness of what was much more of a quote-unquote feminine expectation is sort of out the window here,” she said.
From New York Times ● Jan. 6, 2023
I first met Deneen in South Bend, Ind., last winter, where he lives close to the seminary-like Notre Dame campus in a neighborhood of exemplary Midwestern demureness.
From New York Times ● Oct. 19, 2021
This demureness has long been a trademark of Canadian identity — or at least that's how many Canadians see it.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 1, 2016
In Ms. Akers’s shows a certain demureness always obtains.
From New York Times ● Sep. 19, 2010
“It is you and my mother who will find a good person when the time comes, Aunty,” he said, with a false demureness.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
