ladylike
Example Sentences
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Her mother, Anne, was a stickler for “pure” and ladylike behavior, which cramped Alice’s imagination.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2024
"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
When he met Annie, she struck him as “very ladylike and very nice, very sweet. Soft-spoken.”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 13, 2022
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
She gave a little, ladylike cough as she swallowed—he could not be sure whether this cough was genuine or in mockery of him.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
