unladylike

Example Sentences

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There was nothing unladylike to be found here, which was the point, but also the problem.

From New York Times • Jan. 12, 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

To suggest that Asher try to dishonestly remember would be unladylike, so I’ll let the letter X, as in exit, be the last word.

From Washington Post • Nov. 20, 2019

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

From US News • Nov. 11, 2015

Lady Constance walked slowly back to her seat, lowered herself carefully, and heaved a most unladylike sigh.

From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" by Maryrose Wood