unladylike

Example Sentences

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Albright once condemned Cuban pilots for shooting down civilian planes with the memorable line “This is not cojones, it is cowardice” — protests of unladylike language be darned, Bill Clinton remembered.

From Washington Post • Apr. 27, 2022

But the not so cynic in me thinks: Don’t girls deserve gross-out toys—the opportunity to behave in gleefully inappropriate, unladylike ways—if that’s what they want?

From Slate • Apr. 15, 2020

Again, at my house anyway, there was unladylike shouting at the television.

From US News • Nov. 11, 2015

She shocks those around her by speaking her mind in a most unladylike manner on topics that many people would not even dare consider.

From New York Times • Dec. 4, 2013

“I’m just your weird, unladylike, sloppy-Spanish-speaking, half-Mexican kid.”

From "The First Rule of Punk" by Celia C. Pérez