All 4 Uses of
demure
in
Running in the Family
- Why did she not tell me the story—this demure woman in a sari who was once "bath prefect" at Bishop's College Girl's School, who officiated over the cleansing of my lean five-year-old nakedness?†
p. 139.4 *
- She followed him and coped with him for fourteen years, surrounding his behaviour like a tough and demure breeze.†
p. 149.9
- John Kotelawala glanced at her with wonder—this slight, demure, beautiful woman in white on the urine-soaked platform—while he struggled with her brother who had begun to take off his clothes.†
p. 153.7
- A demure young couple visited him along with a third friend who had a camera.†
p. 159.8
Definition:
modest, quiet, and shy; or pretending such in a playful way