ladylike
Example Sentences
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“The unflappable Pointer sails above the general mayhem with a ladylike aplomb that makes her subsequent emotional epiphany all the more moving,” The Times wrote about Pointer’s performance in that show.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2025
"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
And while most of us will want to tell ourselves that murderers are different from the rest of us, a woman like Montgomery — so personable, so ladylike — thwarts that disidentification.
From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 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
“Dear me!” she murmured at intervals with a ladylike accent.
From "Mary Poppins" by P. L. Travers
