Verb (used without object) : They wanted to make him the treasurer, but he demurred. From Dictionary.com.
"I'm a yogi, not a businessman," Choudhury demurs. From Wordnik.com. [Bikram Yoga's New Twists] Reference
Palocci, a 42-year-old fiscal prude, typically demurs. From Wordnik.com. [Strong Medicine] Reference
But publicly, she demurs, like many on the Obama team. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 15, 2008] Reference
“My wife demurs at sending him,” said Mr. Gresley. From Wordnik.com. [Red Pottage] Reference
"There are better historians than me," Ms. Kopp demurs. From Wordnik.com. [What They're Doing After Harvard] Reference
Alphabet Ed demurs: "That is not our preferred option.". From Wordnik.com. [Sop Stories: Suggestions Pour In on How to Clean Up Gulf] Reference
I hand him thirty cents in three dimes, but he demurs. From Wordnik.com. [A Day in the Life of an Extremely Minor Playwright] Reference
White demurs, but suggests that Carson write the article. From Wordnik.com. [Wired Top Stories] Reference
When asked if these people are just plain nuts, he demurs. From Wordnik.com. [Putting the Hype in Hyperspace] Reference
Again, they offer to take him to to safety, and he demurs. From Wordnik.com. [Esther Dyson: Flight School: The Lord Will Provide] Reference
I can die ': An old pal, the announcer Ahmad Rashad, demurs. From Wordnik.com. [A Magical Mystery Tour] Reference
Typically modest, Bishop demurs on the subject of influence. From Wordnik.com. [A Friendship in Letters] Reference
Up for re-election next year, Ventura demurs about his plans. From Wordnik.com. [Ventura's Shutdown Smackdown] Reference
They get to rewrite United Nations resolutions and King demurs. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Baer: Larry King, Ace Interviewer, Gives the Lebanese Prime Minister the Softball Treatment] Reference
If the U.S. demurs, are we headed toward a global currency war?. From Wordnik.com. [Currency Chaos: Where Do We Go From Here?] Reference
But in Washington, the pathetic hack demurs on behalf of his boss. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-05-01] Reference
When I ask Julia about the occasion for this gift, she politely demurs. From Wordnik.com. [Filmmaker Errol Morris Gets to the Truth Behind the Abu Ghraib Photographs] Reference
"I don't like to talk about when we come up with ideas," Lindelof demurs. From Wordnik.com. [Serfin' USA] Reference
Miss DAISY ASHFORD, another of our "best sellers," demurs to the view that. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-01-28] Reference
If she demurs, then why not try Dionne Warwick, Bill Gates or Michael Dell?. From Wordnik.com. ["TRUE Audacity: Pre-Victory Cabinet Announcements!"] Reference
Hans Humes, cochairman of the Global Committee of Argentine Bondholders, demurs. From Wordnik.com. [Periscope] Reference
Edward demurs, and they are outraged that he will not continue business as usual. From Wordnik.com. [The Madoff Inheritance] Reference
The Obama campaign demurs when asked about when Facebook gave it access to their API. From Wordnik.com. [Did Facebook Play Favorites with Obama?] Reference
To this invitation, given in most bewitching manner, the young man courteously demurs. From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
The White House itself demurs, preferring to look ahead (Afghanistan?), not backwards. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Brenner: Torture, Honor and Obama] Reference
Amusingly, Kissinger demurs and says that he regards Nixon as a poisonous manipulator. From Wordnik.com. [The Courtier] Reference
When the poet demurs, Mario uses Neruda's own love poems for the purpose, and succeeds. From Wordnik.com. [When Postman and Poet Meet] Reference
He demurs that he hasn't always succeeded, and she assures him, "I know who you are now.". From Wordnik.com. [Finale Watch: Mad Men, Rubicon] Reference
(The company demurs, saying that neither Lockheed nor Martin dominates the combined firm.). From Wordnik.com. [Thanks, I Needed That] Reference
A guy drives by in a pickup truck and offers to take the old man to safety, but he demurs. From Wordnik.com. [Esther Dyson: Flight School: The Lord Will Provide] Reference
And he basically demurs on answering the age old question: "How long will you stay in this job?". From Wordnik.com. [TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads] Reference
Another man railroads his way through the congregation and pleads for a picture; Dragicevic demurs. From Wordnik.com. [Visions Of The Virgin] Reference
If Musharraf demurs, Bhutto could politely threaten to bring tens of thousands of her followers into the streets. From Wordnik.com. [Crackdown] Reference
Snyder, an attorney in Washington, where the mayor begs for military help against crime, demurs, comprehensively. From Wordnik.com. [Are We 'A Nation Of Cowards'?] Reference
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