demure

They offered to introduce him to a demure, devoted woman.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

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

At first she put on her slightly stupid demure look, but after a few of his words she gave that up and bored into him with her eyes, trying to read his thoughts.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

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

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

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

“From London—but I’m not French, you know,” was the retort, with the demurest of demure smiles.

From The Heiress of Wyvern Court by Emilie Searchfield

It was all over at last, and Gabriel found himself seated in the carriage, side by side with the demurest and the quietest young lady he had ever seen.

From Gabriel Tolliver A Story of Reconstruction by Joel Chandler Harris

"What," she asked him, with demurest innocence, "are these compensations?"

From Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini

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

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