demurely
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Bragg’s prosecution team immediately objected, and Judge Juan Merchan sustained the objection, but not before Cohen could demurely respond “sounds like something I would do.”
From Slate ● May 16, 2024
Then she demurely follows the presenters, Roger Moore and Liv Ullman, offstage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2022
Later in spring, bloom continues more demurely, when Magnolia wilsonii and M. sieboldii, a couple of Larson’s favorite species, produce fragrant, nodding white flowers with pink to crimson stamens.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 9, 2022
But she saw an intelligence in Kennedy that matched her own, and she was, demurely but fiercely, ambitious for him.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 24, 2020
Lord Peter Henslowe brought a small gold-banded plate of supper to Camilla where she sat demurely with her loose pearls in her purse and a corsage watchful on her shoulder.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
