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demureness::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | coyness |
| Type of | affectedness |
| Derivation | demure |
Examples of demureness
demureness
But the reason for sitting like a twining vine might not be feminine demureness.
From the nytimes.com
The young Annette combined modesty and openness, demureness and directness.
From the kentucky.com
Scherzinger exudes an unusual mix of demureness and fierce drive.
From the metro.co.uk
Jenn Gambatese is gleefully pert as Eliante, impatient for love and casting aside demureness to go after her man.
From the timesunion.com
Outside the walls of the typical Muslim households that I visited in Morocco, Jordan and Egypt, all was demureness and propriety.
From the themuslimweekly.com
Wonpen, who also gives erotic massages, conceals her mastectomy from clients who interpret her reluctance to undress as an appealing demureness.
From the movies.nytimes.com
The weight of circumstantial evidence and buzzing among baseball people in and out of uniform always did engender heavy suspicion, even before his 2005 demureness in front of Congress.
From the sportsillustrated.cnn.com
The bowl haircut's not quite up to Bob's bird's-nest tangle, but it has a certain charm of its own, blending as it does the simian sullenness of Ian Brown with the pageboy demureness of Princess Di.
From the independent.co.uk
- The trait of behaving with reserve and decorum
- Coyness: the affectation of being demure in a provocative way
- Standards of modesty (also called demureness or reticence) are aspects of the culture of a country or people, at a given point in time, and is a measure against which an individual in society may be judged.
- The state or quality of being demure
