demure
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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
Another internet phenomenon has inspired the Dictionary.com word of the year which is demure.
From BBC • Dec. 1, 2024
Purser’s Anne isn’t the demure ingenue of more traditional productions, even though McDonald’s Edouard Dindon has no problem playing the farcical parental heavy.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 19, 2024
At Amazon’s studios, she sits in a bouclé armchair on her podcast set, dressed like a demure interviewer: patent leather loafers, cuffed jeans, a sweater set, a string of pearls.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 10, 2024
One of those demure oil portraits of a lady with a book open in her lap and a lamb lying at her feet.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
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