unladylike

Example Sentences

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But the not so cynic in me thinks: Don’t girls deserve gross-out toys—the opportunity to behave in gleefully inappropriate, unladylike ways—if that’s what they want?

From Slate • Apr. 15, 2020

Writing about Serena Williams, cultural critic Rebecca Traister argued that the debacle had nothing to do with tennis but rather with how, despite lots of work and progress, we’re still collectively uncomfortable with unladylike behavior.

From Washington Post • Sep. 10, 2018

Adopting James’s style, after all, required Banville to write a sentence like this: “Henrietta delivered herself of a distinctly unladylike snort.”

From New York Times • Nov. 20, 2017

Again, at my house anyway, there was unladylike shouting at the television.

From US News • Nov. 11, 2015

She looked like she was going to laugh again, but she just gave an unladylike snort and wagged her head.

From "Crash" by Jerry Spinelli