unladylike

Example Sentences

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Some of the men running the hospital considered Nightingale unladylike and a nuisance.

From Washington Post • May 4, 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

Adopting James’s style, after all, required Banville to write a sentence like this: “Henrietta delivered herself of a distinctly unladylike snort.”

From New York Times • Nov. 20, 2017

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

From US News • Nov. 11, 2015

“But don’t tell Amelia,” she said, her voice returning to its usual ironic tone, “she’d think it unladylike to want to go to Oberlin.”

From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson