demure
Definition of abbreviation (noun) -
affectedly or falsely modest or prim; serious; calm; shyPart of speech:
Adjectivemore demure; most demure; less demure; least demure
Example sentences with this word:
The woman was demure when complimented in public.
Dinner was an unvarying weekly round in which boiled beef and mutton figured largely, and it was little compensation to several hundred hungry schoolboys that they took their meals in the school's magnificent hall, overlooked by the demure and decorative paintings of Antonio Verrio.
She was not the whore who lurks under the demure exterior of even the most respectable wife and mother.
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