Demureness [noun]
Definition of Demureness:
modesty
Synonyms of Demureness:
Opposite/Antonyms of Demureness:
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Sentence/Example of Demureness:
Susie Billings, minus her khaki and cartridges, looked the picture of demureness in white muslin and baby-blue ribbons.
"He was my first love," said Marjorie, with wicked demureness.
Dotty thought of Harriet all the afternoon, and walked about the house with a demureness quite unusual.
She hath demureness and dignity, and suits me better than yon whimsical baggage you are all mad over.
Nellie had a sense of fun—not humor—under her demureness, and she was pleased and amused as he meant her to be.
“I think I hear them coming,” said Dorothy, whose demureness had not given as much as a flicker.
And then she let herself be drawn out, with the drollest mixture of arch demureness and gracious caprice.
Of a sudden she would assume a demureness, utterly bewitching in its veiled and perfect mimicry.
Under the little clerk's correctness and demureness there ran and mingled with her blood the warm undercurrent of a dream.
It was so safe with her steady demureness that Hutchinson found himself becoming steady himself.