demure

• “Above his head, Jasmine curls her body into a Scorpion, her expression demure, bordering on bashful.”

  Simon & Schuster: Cheer!

• “All that tenderest care and kindest heart could suggest was done to make me comfortable by my kind hosts; and the cavalcade of retainers, with which I had come out so gayly, followed in demure silence.”

  Hawaii's Story, by Hawaii's Queen

• “McCain makes the Bush daughters look demure, which is a shame: we had so much hope for them taking over their father's mantle, but McCain looks like she will be fun too.”

  Paul Jenkins: Republican Circus: Extended Engagement

• “She actually envied the simplicity of Lucy Morris, for whom she delighted to find evil names, calling her demure, a prig, a sly puss, and so on.”

  The Eustace Diamonds

• “Morris, for whom she delighted to find evil names, calling her demure, a prig, a sly puss, and so on.”

  The Eustace Diamonds

• “Both very, very -- kind of demure and kind of quiet.”

  CNN Transcript Feb 14, 2005

• “It peeps out, even in the most serious passages, in a kind of demure rebellion against the fanaticism of his remorseless intelligence.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860

• “In repose, it had a look of having just finished saying something humorous, a kind of demure appreciation of itself.”

  Piccadilly Jim

• “There was no doubt that the official was equally attracted and fascinated by her prettiness, and although her acceptance of his return was certainly not a cordial one, there was a kind of demure restraint and over-consciousness in her manner that might be coquetry.”

  Tales of Trail and Town

• “Thimister Couture Red Hooded Dress-This is totally reminiscent of early, "demure" Gaga.”

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