1. demure - Adjective
2. demure - Verb
3. demure - Adjective Satellite
Of sober or serious mien; composed and decorous in bearing; of modest look; staid; grave.
Affectedly modest, decorous, or serious; making a show of gravity.
To look demurely.
Source: Webster's dictionaryYou become very angry and depressed that you keep getting offered only these exceedingly demure and repressed roles. They're so not me. That's why films like Fight Club were so important to me because I think I confounded certain stereotypes and limited perceptions of what I could do as an actress. Helena Bonham Carter
Girls are supposed to be feminine and demure. Comedy isn't about that, so you just have to unlearn it. Certain women are so pretty, they can't go weird enough to be funny. You have to be willing to be ugly. I'm lucky my face can look so hideous. Jennifer Coolidge
Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out. William F. Buckley
Persian pussy from over the sea demure and lazy and smug and fat none of your ribbons and bells for me ours is the zest of the alley cat. Don Marquis
673. As demure as if Butter would not melt in his Mouth. Thomas Fuller (writer)
As demure as an old whore at a christening. Italian Proverb