Example Sentences

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But the not so cynic in me thinks: Don’t girls deserve gross-out toys—the opportunity to behave in gleefully inappropriate, unladylike ways—if that’s what they want?

From Slate • Apr. 15, 2020

To suggest that Asher try to dishonestly remember would be unladylike, so I’ll let the letter X, as in exit, be the last word.

From Washington Post • Nov. 20, 2019

The bob, while now a classic, has never quite lost its unladylike insouciance.

From New York Times • Jan. 8, 2019

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