Meanings of so demure in English

Nay, look not so demure; why, even thou, see, hast thy Armida.

Now, don't look so demure, but tell me how it is.

They say she is very strong-minded, though, and not always so demure, Petra said.

You are so demure, and yet you can pounce and scratch when the occasion comes.

She had plenty of spirit, anyhow, for all that she looked so demure and shy.

The Grecian goddess no longer looks so demure.

Everything about this house is so demure, and silent, and solemn, and Quakerish, and hatefully prim.

And you so demure in your soutane!

But Bartlett Sher's direction is so demure that no one seems to bother removing clothing before commencing lovemaking.

For this vessel, looking so demure and Quaker-like, I very ungratefully began to entertain feelings akin to contempt.

And Violante, overjoyed, kisses away the implied rebuke, and sits down to work, so demure and so proud, by his side.

Presently little Thiers saunters back: what a clear, broad sharp-eyed face the fellow has, with his gray hair cut down so demure!

Treat her badly and she'll treat you to a quiverful of arrows, for all that she looks so demure, so white, so chaste.

It is a savage beast, though it does look so demure; and scratched Jack's hand and mine, horribly, when we were tying on the bands.

Shinde, who is seventy-eight years old, is trim, neat, and so demure that he can say things like "hundred-carat cabochon emerald" without making you faint.

"You need not look so demure, my child; we all know that you understand."