unladylike
Example Sentences
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Some of the men running the hospital considered Nightingale unladylike and a nuisance.
From Washington Post • May 4, 2022
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
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
We laughed at the unladylike ways we all sank into the mud.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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