Synonym: bashful, coy, prim, timid. Similar words: bemused, emulate, murky, murder, murphy's law, intramural, demand, demise. Meaning: [dɪ'mjʊə] adj. affectedly modest or shy especially in a playful or provocative way.
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1. She gave him a demure smile.
2. She's very demure and sweet.
3. Old photos of Maggie show her young and demure.
4. Her best defence may be her demure appearance.
5. She looked almost demure, she thought disparagingly, glaring at her reflection as if her dilemma were all the mirror's fault.
6. Lovely, simple, and demure.
7. I wore jeans or the demure dresses approved of by the school authorities.
8. When they become possessed by their spirits, these demure, purdah-confined ladies undergo a remarkable change.
9. Her maids carried them upstairs and demure Penelope retired with great contentment in her heart.
10. It has also turned even the most demure waterfalls into dramatic fountains, and made the waterfalls in Yosemite Valley absolutely breathtaking.
11. Lovely, simple, and demure. Badly treated by her family and underappreciated.
12. The deceptively demure Meredith was led outside by the masked Lucenzo.
13. But the demure look toward the floor, the disclaimer with the hands often as not look faked when seen.
14. Just then, a demure female entered the room.
15. She sipped her soda and looked demure.
16. NOT much about Texas is becoming or demure.
17. WOMAN WARRIORS Fragile , submissive, demure and mysterious. That's how some Americans think of Asian women.
18. Happy to break with the stereotype of the demure wife, sharp-tongued Nobuko relishes the role of Kan's toughest critic and famously spars with him over everything from household chores to tax reform.
19. A saucy redheaded southerner, Mom could be demure one moment and shocking the next, with a laugh so loud and sudden it turned heads. And she had stories to tell.
20. Demure, self - effacing and discreet, Sarah Brown has played the wife - in - the - background role to perfection.
21. The demure maiden , the demure spouse demure mother - this is still the ideal.
22. A few weeks later, she had shed her demure image.
23. The old photos of Maggie, straight and young and demure though she looks, make it worse.
24. As if some one like me should have sat there quietly like a mouse, demure and repressed!
25. Aunt Edie felt there was a very teasing minx behind the girl's demure look.
26. He is as good as his name, as wild, eccentric and ebullient as Keane is demure and disciplined.http://Sentencedict.com
27. But perhaps the cemetery's biggest crowd - puller is the relatively demure tomb of Nikita Krushchev.
28. The painting portrays a beautiful lady , gentle and demure, brimming with joy and confidence in life.
29. There she was , grey - suited , sweet - faced , demure, but scowling.
30. Delicate concise model design style , the language wielding the adept but concise line, overall hue adopt pure white , optesthesia experiences cheerful fresh people , expert is demure.
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