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Recent Examples of demurely
Other guests reacted more demurely—some turned away, while one wiped away tears.
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Susmita Baral, Travel + Leisure, 21 Apr. 2026
That is what Emma is doing in this scene by talking to Mark, looking at the floor demurely, and wringing her hands precisely three (3) times.
—Brian Moylan, Vulture, 20 Mar. 2026
Gold lace demurely veils a woman’s face beneath a crown-like headpiece.
—Jane Wooldridge, Miami Herald, 19 Feb. 2026
All of them were demurely buttoned right to the top.
—Madeline Hirsch, InStyle, 27 Jan. 2026
Susmita Baral, Travel + Leisure, 21 Apr. 2026
That is what Emma is doing in this scene by talking to Mark, looking at the floor demurely, and wringing her hands precisely three (3) times.
—Brian Moylan, Vulture, 20 Mar. 2026
Gold lace demurely veils a woman’s face beneath a crown-like headpiece.
—Jane Wooldridge, Miami Herald, 19 Feb. 2026
All of them were demurely buttoned right to the top.
—Madeline Hirsch, InStyle, 27 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for demurely
Adverb
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Mellencamp grew up modestly but comfortably in the idyllic town of Seymour, Indiana, the son of a mother who was an artist and nascent beauty queen, and a father who worked a white-collar job with a local electrical contracting firm.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Apr. 2026
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In a pilot trial involving 16 women with preterm preeclampsia, researchers found that filtering out a protein called sFlt-1 from the pregnant women’s blood was both safe and could modestly reduce their blood pressure.—
Jackie Flynn Mogensen,
Scientific American,
27 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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Each room features unobtrusively cool art, like an oil abstract by the Bergen artist Arvid J Petterson in ours.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
23 Apr. 2026
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The stills photographer must hover unobtrusively on the sidelines of moviemaking, taking pictures that will be used to promote a film.—
Naomi Fry,
New Yorker,
14 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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In these quietly stunning essays, a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, the daughter of an Army veteran and a schoolteacher, looks back on her upbringing in Buckhannon, West Virginia.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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Wealth, meanwhile, has quietly redefined itself upward.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
3 May 2026
Adverb
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Intentionally, there is no permanent Tunnel Projects sign anywhere in the complex, though a small map on a signpost is set out inconspicuously at a side entrance, and a paper guide is taped to the wall next to the ground-floor elevator, which is hidden in an alcove.—
Andres Viglucci,
Miami Herald,
17 Apr. 2026
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Drones can be used to fly inconspicuously above cars, there’s smart bumpers that can fire a net to suspects’ tires, as a lot of us have already heard.—
Sierra van der Brug,
Daily News,
9 Apr. 2026
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“Demurely.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/demurely. Accessed 5 May. 2026.
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