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Susie Billings, minus her khaki and cartridges, looked the picture of demureness in white muslin and baby-blue ribbons.
THE SUNBRIDGE GIRLS AT SIX STAR RANCHELEANOR H. (ELEANOR HODGMAN) PORTER"He was my first love," said Marjorie, with wicked demureness.
FOUR DAYSHETTY HEMENWAYDotty thought of Harriet all the afternoon, and walked about the house with a demureness quite unusual.
DOTTY DIMPLE AT HOMESOPHIE MAYShe hath demureness and dignity, and suits me better than yon whimsical baggage you are all mad over.
RICHARD CARVEL, COMPLETEWINSTON CHURCHILLNellie had a sense of fun—not humor—under her demureness, and she was pleased and amused as he meant her to be.
SOUTHERN HEARTSFLORENCE HULL WINTERBURN“I think I hear them coming,” said Dorothy, whose demureness had not given as much as a flicker.
GRAY YOUTHOLIVER ONIONSAnd then she let herself be drawn out, with the drollest mixture of arch demureness and gracious caprice.
HOPES AND FEARSCHARLOTTE M. YONGEOf a sudden she would assume a demureness, utterly bewitching in its veiled and perfect mimicry.
OVERLAND REDHENRY HERBERT KNIBBSUnder the little clerk's correctness and demureness there ran and mingled with her blood the warm undercurrent of a dream.
THE DIVINE FIREMAY SINCLAIRIt was so safe with her steady demureness that Hutchinson found himself becoming steady himself.
T. TEMBAROMFRANCES HODGSON BURNETTWORDS RELATED TO DEMURENESS
- abasement
- bashfulness
- demureness
- diffidence
- docility
- fawning
- inferiority complex
- lack of pride
- lowliness
- meekness
- mortification
- nonresistance
- obedience
- obsequiousness
- passiveness
- reserve
- resignation
- self-abasement
- self-abnegation
- servility
- sheepishness
- shyness
- subjection
- submissiveness
- subservience
- timidity
- timorousness
- unobtrusiveness
- unpretentiousness
- bashfulness
- celibacy
- chastity
- constraint
- coyness
- decency
- delicacy
- demureness
- diffidence
- discreetness
- humbleness
- humility
- inhibition
- innocence
- lack of pretension
- meekness
- propriety
- prudery
- purity
- quietness
- reserve
- reticence
- self-effacement
- simplicity
- timidity
- unobtrusiveness
- unostentatiousness
- unpretentiousness
- virtue
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.