How To Use Ladylike In A Sentence

I guess she would rather I expressed myself in a more ladylike manner, or at least a little more eloquently.
She winced and screamed a very foul and unladylike oath.
But we'll keep them in twinsets for the actual episodes, so the women's magazines can keep selling that crap about how the ladylike look is in again.
The principle gave a very unladylike snort and tried to cover it up with a cough.
Cal snorted in an extremely unladylike and inelegant way, and spoke to her girlfriend.

She acted like a spoilt diva demanding to be the centre of attention and her foul mouth was far from ladylike. The Sun
I hate to be blunt, Frankie, but she just didn't strike me as being very ladylike.
So the key to wearing short shorts in a ladylike manner is to balance it out with tops with more coverage, like long sleeves, jackets and even layers.
My large, stupid smile almost developed into a burst of loud, unladylike laughter.
Two catwalk trends - ladylike and pastel - collide to provide the saccharine effect you see here. Times, Sunday Times
And what an elegant arm it will be - free of those unladylike biceps that result from particular physical activities in which you won't be partaking.
It let out a very unladylike roar, and pounced on Sawyer, who threw himself out of its path with inches to spare. COLDHEART CANYON
Kate is the epitome of ladylike elegance with poker straight posture, a svelte figure and a confident yet warm personality.
Romero asks Brett to marry him, but he wants her to grow out her boyish hair and behave in a more ladylike manner.
Dolly was close to incandescent in her outrage, and swore at me in a most unladylike manner.
I'm going to try to remain dignified and ladylike throughout the show and see what he does. The Sun
Being offered several times, refusing politely, then at last "Maybe just one, they look soooo good!" was supposed to gratify the hostess into thinking that she really was such a good cook, she'd managed to overcome the ladylike appetite ( "I only exist on air") of the visitor, and the visitor maintains her rep for not being greedy. Mrissa: It gets early early here, too.
On the catwalk, they've teamed them with pencil skirts to complete a smart suit look that conveys better than anything the yearning for a long-overdue dose of ladylike elegance in fashion.
I am arguably the least ladylike swooner of all time! Regretsy – PURE UNADULTERATED AWESOME SAUCE
Otherwise it would become too / ladylike and frumpish / for me. Archive 2009-05-01
Also, dear, some of the snippier things you say may come out just a tad more ladylike if you cut back on the clear liquids. What the hell is wrong with you?
Her language was not very ladylike.
Brittany gushed, shoving her hand into her bag in the most unladylike way - honestly, you'd think I've never been kind enough to try to right her many wrongs, but does she listen?
Mrs. Booker T. Washington, but they were women that were more like what you would call the dowager or the ladylike type of thing. Oral History Interview with Modjeska Simkins, November 15, 1974. Interview G-0056-1. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Well, it might not be ladylike but I'm going to pull my skirt up to get over this fence.
It is quite easy to declare Lil Kim unladylike because that is a term restricted for white females. Always A Tramp: Lil Kim On Dancing With The Stars
The American design diva, who celebrated her 62nd birthday last month, has been forced to behave by the latest trend for ladylike dressing.
Melissa was flustered in her ladylike terror of being come upon uncovered in those disarraying exertions of vigorous sexual informalities and, blushing, wished him, for a change, to finish fast; but she laughed when he did and disclosed the ruse as she was checking his baggage for his medicines and preparing to ride with him to the airport before his flight to Kenosha at the start of his journey. Closing Time
She was failing miserably though as I heard her snort in an unladylike manner.
This season is all about ladylike chic. The Sun
The expression on my face would not be one of ladylike grace and anyone standing close enough to the truck that morning heard the full range of my florid vocabulary learned at my Daddy's knee.
The girl gave an unladylike snort and returned to her conversation.
The girls descended the stairs in a series of clicks and loud unladylike clomps.
He felt that civil engineering was unladylike, that she should become a solicitor or an accountant.
Being sick is bad, bad, bad, childish and despicable, unappealing and unladylike.
I sat with her while she was having her make up put on and just stared in awestruck wonderment that someone could be so ladylike.
Despite her plain clothes, she radiated a ladylike politeness and civility.
It wasn't a ladylike slap, it was an all-out, full-fisted slug to the jaw that could have broken his nose if she had been aiming for it.
Not tempted by something more ladylike than the trumpet? Times, Sunday Times
I hate to be blunt, Frankie, but she just didn't strike me as being very ladylike.
Charlotte snorted in a very unladylike manner.
Dolly was close to incandescent in her outrage, and swore at me in a most unladylike manner.
My first love of school science was geology, and that was definitely not ladylike in the '60s.
She is both poised and uptight, both intellectually curious and submissively ladylike.
I hate to be blunt, Frankie, but she just didn't strike me as being very ladylike.
Kate is the epitome of ladylike elegance with poker straight posture, a svelte figure and a confident yet warm personality.
Not before you've had some breakfast," said her father, and so she hurriedly ate -- it might be said "gobbled," if it were not so unladylike -- the breakfast that Mrs. Jenkins placed before her. Billie Bradley at Three Towers Hall or, Leading a Needed Rebellion
For women, the look is conservative - ladylike suits, sophisticated pantsuits, subtle dark dresses.
From printed jeans to ladylike dresses, there's more to denim than meets the eye. Times, Sunday Times
It felt too la-di-da ladylike for me. Times, Sunday Times
Steal her kooky superhero style by teaming a metallic cover-up with a ladylike tote and shiny shoes. The Sun
This grey patent shootie by Moschino Cheap & Chic is a very pretty, ladylike take on the oxford trend. Latest News
He has already suffered enough and any one with such a ballyragging, unreasonable, unladylike, and headstrong wife deserves our sympathy. Duty, and other Irish Comedies
“If you mean she’s a ladylike kind of creeter, why not say so?” Death of a Fool
The dean of women had decreed that shorts in public for nonsporting purposes were Unladylike and Would Not Be Tolerated. Dream State
But poured into a wine glass, because pint glasses are also unladylike.
Women still found it desirable to behave in a ladylike manner and men strove to be gentlemen.
Avoid dark-alley groping and unladylike fumbling in the back of a cab," the guide says on the subject of one night stands.
But she halted at the top of the steps and leaned toward him in a most unladylike manner. TREASON KEEP
This caused me to appear unladylike by squinting to read the contract that lay on the table before me.
Sorry, I mean drop my silk handkerchief in a ladylike fashion somewhere in his general vicinity. Times, Sunday Times
I hate to be blunt, Frankie, but she just didn't strike me as being very ladylike.
We were, after all, out for a ladylike evening of sparkling chat and witty repartee.
‘Maybe it's because it's considered unladylike to shove the whole thing in your mouth at once,’ I offered.
Carman smiles and claps (and they are polite, understated ladylike claps), delighted.
This season, that trend is ladylike. Times, Sunday Times
So far, my lack of ladylike qualities does not seem to have done me any harm, but when the opportunity arose to attend a course in grooming and deportment, I wondered what brave new world I might be about to enter.
She is at once fiercely competitive and ladylike, a fighter to the death and yet a model of polite understatement.
It can be accentuated with blend-in jewellery, a gold belt or a tough-looking chain necklace, or given a ladylike touch with a prim pearl choker, or simply left to make its own high impact statement. Andy Pemberton: Balmain's Look 22: This Season's It Dress Has Arrived
Despite her plain clothes, she radiated a ladylike politeness and civility.
The role of marketers is to understand motivations, needs and desires, so we're always mindful of consumers 'changing needs," says Elizabeth Davies, communications manager at Nestlé, where they're responsible for marketing both Kit Kat Chunky (manly) and Kit Kat Senses (ladylike). The truth about men, women and food
The pink also gives it a more feminine and ladylike quality.
She may be unladylike, but she certainly was not uncivilized!
Kate is the epitome of ladylike elegance with poker straight posture, a svelte figure and a confident yet warm personality.
The role of women in sport was also problematic, as ideas about proper ladylike behaviour and the proper form of the female body conflicted with developing cults of health and energy at the turn of the century.
Style advisors Belinda Alexander and Gail Little - North Yorkshire's answer to Trinny and Susannah - are fans of the more ladylike looks that are already cropping up everywhere.
Not tempted by something more ladylike than the trumpet? Times, Sunday Times
I like him and his wife; he is so ladylike, and she's such a perfect gentleman.
The people were obviously quite shocked by her unladylike behaviour but recovered quickly to see how the other girl would react.
The other girls show ladylike restraint having just a couple of triangle sarnies and one cookie each.
I screamed, throwing my fists into the wooden pillar, forgetting every notion of ladylike behavior that had been drilled into my head as a child.
For women, the look is conservative - ladylike suits, sophisticated pantsuits, subtle dark dresses.
It is possible to do ladylike retro chic without looking like you're going to a fancy dress party. Times, Sunday Times
Has anyone ever told you that you shouldn't do something because it's not ladylike or gentlemanly?
She tried going around in dungarees to disguise things, but Mom didn't think they were ladylike.
We looked at the Suffragists who had grown grey in petitioning Parliament and being constitutional and "ladylike," and we said, "That's no good."' The Convert
`Surely, Susan, you're not going to do anything so - so unladylike as to throw that at me? MISS MELVILLE REGRETS
I was indignant at the heartlessness of his cynicism, and so the answer that leaped to my lips was out before I had time to reflect upon its unladylikeness. The Light of Scarthey
She winced and screamed a very foul and unladylike oath.
Unlike her somewhat clumsy, unladylike friend, Crystal was a born Lady.
British ‘sauce’ was added by way of Harcourt's lecherous leanings and the women's frank discussions on subjects once deemed unladylike.
Votes poured in, with people from around the globe eager to point out how overweight, unladylike, and generally foul British women are.
Besides the mother/daughter role reversal, much of the show's comedy derived from women indulging in unashamed decadence, hedonism and outrageous, unladylike behaviour in the absence of men.
This winter's fashion has ushered in ‘ladylike’ as a buzzword, meaning that the classics are up for renewal again.
Rudolph noted that she sliced her food in a ladylike manner and wiped her mouth daintily with her handkerchief now and then.
She may advocate a matriarchy, but it is a matriarchy where leaders remain irreproachably ladylike, and therefore ultimately submissive to men.
Oh, she knew hatred was not a ladylike emotion, but she simply could not help it.
Sarah smiled and tried to thank Aunt Marcy in a meek, ladylike manner.
Or is it because you are an incompetent frumpish hysterical female, wholly out of her depth, who instead of acting in a civilised manner as one would expect from someone in your position, instead gives lectures which are downright rude, pig-headedly arrogant and most unladylike? OpEdNews - Diary: Pravda Hammers Condoleeza Rice
Tailoring is key for winter, the new mood is all about ladylike elegance and easy-style glamour - exactly what Marks & Spencer does best.
Women still found it desirable to behave in a ladylike manner and men strove to be gentlemen.
Within ten minutes I was glowing, in an elegant and ladylike way (of course) but still glowing.
I had to bite my lip in order to keep from saying something rude and unladylike, even for the heir to a war lady's territory.
God love her, she has this ladylike way of boiling things down to their essence while the rest of us are fuming and cussing.
She may be unladylike, but she certainly was not uncivilized!
ladylike manners
The midi length also brings a sense of ladylike chic. Times, Sunday Times
I don't mind, as long as you teach her some ladylike manners.
Reneeth opens up one of the coolers, pulls out some packaged sandwiches, and sets them down in a pile at a table before devouring one herself - in a dignified, ladylike fashion, of course.
She crossed the room with quick, ladylike steps.
It simply wouldn't do if such unladylike words slipped from thoughts to speech.
Dame Edna, that ladylike Australian flame-thrower, has used this technique to funny effect over the years. A theatrical manifesto: hands off the audience!
Muscle up the ladylike trend with luxe leather and studded touches and finish the greased lightning look with high shine metallic accessories. The Sun
As I plunged; or jumped, arms flailing, into the icy river, my unladylike descent was watched in complete disbelief by Horrified Friend and about 10 blokes.
Miss Louder tells me I can 'bant' -- whatever that is -- to take down my flesh, and mebbe you'll see me some day, Miss Lou, in a re'l ladylike part. Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper
The prim and proper ladylike look is set to be really big for autumn 2004 and winter 2005.
She asked me so many things, about magic and vampires until we both were yawning in a way that my grandmother would have called unladylike.
The height of romanticism; there was little else I could do apart from down my drink, suppress a ladylike belch and swing my legs around you in an elegant straddle.
The latest waist-friendly look is the unabashedly ladylike peplum top.
She couldn't skip rope because it wasn't ladylike.
She had some casual clothes, but those had to be hidden away since her parents frowned upon anything they considered unladylike.
The most feminine of summer's catwalk trends, ladylike pastels are girly without being saccharine. Times, Sunday Times
She may very well be a grand, sweet lady, but she did some decidedly lowbrow, unladylike things.

How To Use Ladylike In A Sentence

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