maidenly

ADJECTIVE
  1. befitting or characteristic of a maiden
    a maidenly blush
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How To Use maidenly In A Sentence

  • Up the aisle she flashed, and none but Mary Cavendish could have made that little journey under the eyes of the governor in his pew and the governor's lady and all the burgesses, and the churchwarden half starting up as if to exercise his authority, and the parson swelling with a vast expanse of sable robes over the Book, with no abashedness and yet no boldness nor unmaidenly forwardness. The Heart's Highway: A Romance of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century
  • Her cheeks were rosy with the effort to say what she meant without seeming unmaidenly.
  • The unmaidenly heroine of his novel is a French-American, Nicole Coche-Dury, who with her fiancé Sean visits her family in the region.
  • Claudio cruelly accused his wife-to-be of unmaidenly behaviour, leaving her fainting at the altar.
  • Her eagerness, the alacrity with which she pressed herself against him, suggested she'd forgotten every maidenly precept she'd ever learned. DEVIL'S BRIDE
  • ‘Since Father is unavailable that would be acceptable,’ she ducked her head in a gesture the steward took as maidenly modesty, but actually was meant to hide her smile.
  • Note that we were only allowed to say that ‘Kissing Mr Carr is unmaidenly behaviour.’
  • Robyn stood back and clasped her hands together, miming maidenly awe.
  • Pieta's voice was of a contralto color, and though not very strong, it was maidenly and soft.
  • Callisto was at the same time flattered and perplexed; still more disconcerted when the pseudo-Diana interrupted her girlish chatter with unmaidenly kisses and embraces.
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