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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
demurring en · ADJ
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Reluctant; tending or serving to demur.
Well, if he, Karl, owned a pair of pants like that it would be no trick at all to captivate the most demurring siren.
2017, Bertita Harding, Golden Fleece:"I'm the hostess, it would be unsociable for me to leave," I said, flashing him my most demurring smile.
2006, Scarlett O'Hara Can Go to Hell, page 173:And that mode of expression is very demurring and self-deprecating. Victorian English was all about understatement.
2004, Rowan Manahan, Where's My Oasis?:, page 158:
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undemurring · demurringly
demurring en · NOUN
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demurral
After some legal demurrings, it was allowed[…]
1825, Mary Sabilla Novello, A Day in Stowe Gardens, page 264:
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demurring en · VERB
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(form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of demur