ladylike

Example Sentences

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But since I wasn’t that connected to Gerry, they were very pleased I was very ladylike.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 10, 2023

"I was raised to be very ladylike and considerate of others, and respectable. My mother definitely would have liked me to go into more a feminine field," she says.

From BBC • May 17, 2023

Martha was willing to shuck her ladylike trappings — to be ugly and to say ugly things — in ways the actor evidently is not.

From Washington Post • Apr. 22, 2022

It is not exactly androgynous, but it is less overtly ladylike.

From New York Times • Oct. 24, 2020

She gave a little, ladylike cough as she swallowed—he could not be sure whether this cough was genuine or in mockery of him.

From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin