Thesaurus / demureness

demureness

synonyms for demureness

See how your sentence looks with different synonyms.

QUIZ

Feast On The Weekly Word Of The Day Quiz!

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.

FOUR DAYSHETTY HEMENWAY

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.

SOUTHERN HEARTSFLORENCE HULL WINTERBURN

“I think I hear them coming,” said Dorothy, whose demureness had not given as much as a flicker.

GRAY YOUTHOLIVER ONIONS

And then she let herself be drawn out, with the drollest mixture of arch demureness and gracious caprice.

HOPES AND FEARSCHARLOTTE M. YONGE

Of a sudden she would assume a demureness, utterly bewitching in its veiled and perfect mimicry.

OVERLAND REDHENRY HERBERT KNIBBS

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.

T. TEMBAROMFRANCES HODGSON BURNETT

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985