demure (adj.)
- backward
- bashful
- censorious
- close
- confused
- conscious
- coy
- decent
- decorous
- diffident
- earnest
- formal
- frowning
- grave
- grim
- hidebound
- inarticulate
- long-faced
- modest
- mousy
- narrow
- nice
- old-maidish
- overmodest
- priggish
- prim
- proper
- prudish
- puritanical
- reserved
- reticent
- retiring
- sanctimonious
- sedate
- seemly
- self-conscious
- serious
- shamefaced
- shy
- silent
- skittish
- smug
- sober
- sobersided
- solemn
- somber
- staid
- stiff-necked
- straitlaced
- stuffy
- thoughtful
- timid
- timorous
- unassertive
- unassured
- unsmiling
- weighty