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

If Ms. Rush’s portrayals had one thing in common, it was a gentle, ladylike quality, which she put to use in films of many genres.

From New York Times • Apr. 1, 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

I was raised in a strict Irish Catholic family, my upbringing almost Victorian, with a focus on being ladylike at all times.

From Washington Post • Dec. 11, 2020

His clothes would make a preacher sigh and Hunter knew from the ladylike hands the stranger had never made a fist hard enough to smash a melon.

From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison