unladylike

Example Sentences

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This is work that she has been doing since her mid 20s, when she and Ilana Glazer created and eventually oversaw the giddy, unladylike comedy “Broad City.”

From New York Times • Aug. 5, 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

The concept was that a dozen young American women with unladylike traits would be shipped off to an English country house to learn social graces, including flower arranging to pheasant shooting.

From Washington Post • Jun. 17, 2018

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