ladylike
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"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
When he met Annie, she struck him as “very ladylike and very nice, very sweet. Soft-spoken.”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 13, 2022
The ladylike logo looks like it was adapted from the Skimm—same teal color, same slim legs and above-the-knee skirt.
From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2020
And instead there was something ladylike and delicate about her that was hard to point out.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
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