unladylike

Example Sentences

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There was nothing unladylike to be found here, which was the point, but also the problem.

From New York Times • Jan. 12, 2022

When I was a little girl and was sitting sprawled in what my Ohio farm-dwelling grandmother would call “an unladylike pose,” she would say, “Stop taking my picture!”

From Washington Post • May 28, 2021

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

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

From US News • Nov. 11, 2015

He shoved it into my hands and dashed for the doorway, tripped himself up in his hem, recovered, hoisted the skirts in a very unladylike fashion, and burst through the curtain onto the stage.

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood