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

Martha was willing to shuck her ladylike trappings — to be ugly and to say ugly things — in ways the actor evidently is not.

From Washington Post • Apr. 22, 2022

It is not exactly androgynous, but it is less overtly ladylike.

From New York Times • Oct. 24, 2020

“Why is that?” she queried in her ladylike voice.

From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter