demure

Years ago, the shy, demure White House chief of staff suggested to President Obama that America “should never let a good crisis go to waste.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026

Even before her husband’s death and her takeover as CEO of TPUSA, she was a highly-educated career woman only playing at being the demure housewife for his audiences.

From Salon ● Jun. 12, 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

Her sweet ballads fooled many into thinking she was fragile and demure.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2025

Milo answered in a demure voice with his face lowered meekly.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

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

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

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

Mrs. Owen's family, the Singletons, had crossed the Ohio into Hoosier territory along in the fifties, in time for Sally to have been a student—not the demurest from all accounts—at Indiana Female College.

From A Hoosier Chronicle by F. C. (Frederick Coffay) Yohn

With downcast demurest eyes and hesitating speech, Saxon said: "I did something yesterday without asking your advice, Billy."

From The Valley of the Moon by Jack London

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

Ellen was wearing her darkest, demurest clothes, in emphatic contrast to the ribbons and laces in which Brodnyx and Pedlinge usually went to the fair.

From Joanna Godden by Sheila Kaye-Smith

"White gloves, of course," said Louie, with her demurest look.

From The Story of Louie by Oliver [pseud.] Onions