unladylike
Example Sentences
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When I was a little girl and was sitting sprawled in what my Ohio farm-dwelling grandmother would call “an unladylike pose,” she would say, “Stop taking my picture!”
From Washington Post ● May 28, 2021
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
The bob, while now a classic, has never quite lost its unladylike insouciance.
From New York Times ● Jan. 8, 2019
Again, at my house anyway, there was unladylike shouting at the television.
From US News ● Nov. 11, 2015
We laughed at the unladylike ways we all sank into the mud.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
