unladylike
IPA: ʌnɫˈeɪdiɫaɪk
adjective
- Not ladylike; ill-mannered.
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Examples of "unladylike" in Sentences
- Arya and Sansa argue over the former's "unladylike" behavior on the journey.
- Girls of my generation didn't generally play sports, as it was considered sort of "unladylike".
- Do I restrict food consumption when I am eating in public, out of fear of looking "unladylike" or like a pig?
- He quotes Wells saying that she was "unladylike" at a baseball game and moved by the character of Koko in The Mikado.
- "I'm disappointed and I believe that ladies should never be called unladylike for participating as a woman in a man's world," Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee D-Texas told POLITICO.
- I am careful to tell you how I acted toward him, and what led to it; because I understand that he is excessively offended with me, and that he is likely to mention elsewhere what he calls my unladylike violence toward him.
- In the book a Victorian girl called Megan confesses that her worst fault is wanting to be 'unladylike' and her greatest pleasure is 'stealing half an hour in the garden with Tom' presumably her boyfriend when her papa is asleep.
- Many were expected to spend their lives in other people's parlours and kitchens, dusting and cleaning, carrying water in jugs and polishing silverware....others were expected to have more priviledged lives, barely doing any housework and encouraged to believe that a whole range of useful activities were somehow "unladylike".
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