The affectation of being demure in a provocative way.
1 She looked straight in front of her with a strange old-fashioned demureness .
2 The Countess's letter is a mixture of pious demureness and querulous selfishness.
3 She did nothing of the kind; only looked at me with irritating demureness .
4 She blushed and smiled, the image of demureness except for her fingers' boldness.
5 Hastings glanced at the prim demureness written on each blooming visage, and replied,-
6 Photograph: Natalia Mironets There's a certain enforced demureness that works.
7 She tossed her head, but resumed her wiping of the glass with a certain demureness .
8 There was a twinkle of mischief in Norah's demureness .
9 A gentlemanly humility, or demureness of aspect, when seen, would, he hoped, disarm his enemy.
10 That automatic demureness characterizing English servants in the presence of their employers, is wholly unknown here.
11 He was captivated by her freshness and beauty, her demureness , her ignorance of all things vicious.
12 Gay colors alternate with snowy whiteness; extremest fashion elbows the plain demureness of old- fashioned Methodism.
13 There it was that her Japanese demureness was dropped and the American frankness and vivacity of manner acquired.
14 She hath demureness and dignity, and suits me better than yon whimsical baggage you are all mad over.
15 This was behind a maidenly demureness .
16 Her face was demureness itself.
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