ladylike

Example Sentences

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Komasa knows authoritarianism in its most flagrant, brutal forms, but his new film “Anniversary” imagines a scenario in which fascism doesn’t stomp in, jackbooted, but creeps, pretty and ladylike, on kitten-heeled feet.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 31, 2025

"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

Both feature glamorous black-and-white photos of bejeweled princesses; both titles are printed in ladylike pastels.

From New York Times • Mar. 15, 2021

A delicate, ladylike spatter of applause, and we all sat at the enormous linendraped table.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath