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

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

From New York Times • Oct. 24, 2020

Mature and ladylike at just fourteen years old, she was a person on a mission: she seemed to know exactly where she was going in life, with a sort of inward direction driving her.

From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry