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

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

He shoved it into my hands and dashed for the doorway, tripped himself up in his hem, recovered, hoisted the skirts in a very unladylike fashion, and burst through the curtain onto the stage.

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood