The Only Use of
demure
in
A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens
- There were ruddy, brown-faced, broad-girthed Spanish Onions, shining in the fatness of their growth like Spanish Friars, and winking from their shelves in wanton slyness at the girls as they went by, and glanced demurely at the hung-up mistletoe.†
p. 63.2demurely = in a quiet, modest, or shy manner OR (more rarely) pretending shyness in a playful way
Definition:
modest, quiet, and shy; or pretending such in a playful way