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demurring

verb

Definitions

  1. present participle and gerund of demur

  2. Reluctant

    Reluctant; tending or serving to demur.

    • And that mode of expression is very demurring and self-deprecating. Victorian English was all about understatement.
    • "I'm the hostess, it would be unsociable for me to leave," I said, flashing him my most demurring smile.
    • Well, if he, Karl, owned a pair of pants like that it would be no trick at all to captivate the most demurring siren.

  3. demurral

    • After some legal demurrings, it was allowed[…]

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA