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
Ms. Mantell later told Newsday that music industry veterans advised the two women to get out of the business “before we lost the ladylike equivalent of our shirts.”
From Washington Post ● Feb. 8, 2023
Her critique of ladylike behavior was delivered while modeling it at the same time — “back straight, chin up,” just as the poem describes, and shod in Louboutins.
From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2022
The ladylike Fox sisters did not seem like swindlers.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
