demure

Example Sentences

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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

Tseggai’s Miriam seems demure but delivers a wild monologue about her unhappy marriage and subsequent all-consuming affair that confirms you can’t judge a book by its cover.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2025

She’d ask for news of the tenants by name and demure every time he told her they were willing to pay more.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2024

Another internet phenomenon has inspired the Dictionary.com word of the year which is demure.

From BBC • Dec. 1, 2024

Elizebeth realized he thought she was “a demure little nobody.”

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield