ladylike
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“The unflappable Pointer sails above the general mayhem with a ladylike aplomb that makes her subsequent emotional epiphany all the more moving,” The Times wrote about Pointer’s performance in that show.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 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
And while most of us will want to tell ourselves that murderers are different from the rest of us, a woman like Montgomery — so personable, so ladylike — thwarts that disidentification.
From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2023
I was raised in a strict Irish Catholic family, my upbringing almost Victorian, with a focus on being ladylike at all times.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 11, 2020
Head held high, she forced herself to keep a ladylike pace.
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
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