ladylike

Example Sentences

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Vogue noted that some judges and other stars on the show commented on her appearance, with one choreographer encouraging her to be "more ladylike" and learn how to dance in six-inch heels.

From BBC • Jan. 7, 2026

“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

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

Her critique of ladylike behavior was delivered while modeling it at the same time — “back straight, chin up,” just as the poem describes, and shod in Louboutins.

From New York Times • Jan. 12, 2022

Because she could not stand to be sometimes fed, sometimes not, she had put herself in a place where she would never hear that ladylike knock, low on the door, that was Callie’s.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen