unladylike
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Early on, she made a loud and unladylike joke in the writers’ room.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
There was nothing unladylike to be found here, which was the point, but also the problem.
From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 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
The concept was that a dozen young American women with unladylike traits would be shipped off to an English country house to learn social graces, including flower arranging to pheasant shooting.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 17, 2018
“I’m just your weird, unladylike, sloppy-Spanish-speaking, half-Mexican kid.”
From "The First Rule of Punk" by Celia C. Pérez
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