ladylike

Example Sentences

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Komasa knows authoritarianism in its most flagrant, brutal forms, but his new film “Anniversary” imagines a scenario in which fascism doesn’t stomp in, jackbooted, but creeps, pretty and ladylike, on kitten-heeled feet.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 31, 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

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

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

From New York Times • Oct. 24, 2020

A delicate, ladylike spatter of applause, and we all sat at the enormous linendraped table.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath