maidenly - use in sentences

Modifies a noun

  • modesty: She should have swooned and been overcome with maidenly modesty - not challenging and indignant because she thought she was being trifled with.
  • virtue: I thought her reluctance to have sex had something to do with residual maidenly virtue.

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