Synonyms:
coy, demure, overmodest
Meaning: affectedly modest or shy especially in a playful or provocative way
Usage examples
She was demure and dimly appealing
Whereupon the hot-headed girl from Dixie suspended hostilities and became a very demure young woman.
Bell understood it all, and sat quite silent, with demure countenance;--perhaps even with something of sternness in her face.
A certain light-haired girl had made vivacious fun at his martial spirit, but there was another and darker girl whom he had gazed at steadfastly, and he thought she grew demure and sad at sight of his blue and brass.
A demure, old-fashioned type; well-poised but unassuming; fetchingly gowned and with sufficient individuality of taste but not conspicuously; a girl with soft brown hair and soft brown eyes; pretty, not extravagantly so when her face was in repose, but with a slow smile that rendered her little less than beautiful: in all (Lanyard thought) the kind of woman that is predestined to comfort mankind, whose strongest instinct is the maternal.