Definitions
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- adjective Not
ladylike ; ill-mannered.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective lacking the behavior or manner or style considered proper for a lady
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Examples
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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.
No Name 2003
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"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.
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Arya and Sansa argue over the former's "unladylike" behavior on the journey.
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Girls of my generation didn't generally play sports, as it was considered sort of "unladylike".
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He quotes Wells saying that she was "unladylike" at a baseball game and moved by the character of Koko in The Mikado.
Archive 2007-11-01 ricklibrarian 2007
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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".
Archive 2007-01-01 Joanna Bogle 2007
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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.
Archive 2007-03-01 2007
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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".
auntie joanna writes Joanna Bogle 2007
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He quotes Wells saying that she was "unladylike" at a baseball game and moved by the character of Koko in The Mikado.
They Say: Ida B. Wells and the Reconstruction of Race by James West Davidson ricklibrarian 2007
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Do I restrict food consumption when I am eating in public, out of fear of looking "unladylike" or like a pig?
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