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
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
When the novel was first published, Jane’s insubordination was regarded as rather shocking and unladylike.
From Slate • Mar. 15, 2016
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
