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