Example Sentences

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Her bonnet wasn’t big enough to hide her face, and she feared he might think the joy it betrayed unmaidenly.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

“Right, Jo. Better be happy old maids than unhappy wives, or unmaidenly girls, running about to find husbands,” said Mrs. March decidedly.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

For conduct that had been unseemly, unmaidenly, improper.

From Chippinge Borough by Weyman, Stanley J.

How indeed could she be anything to him, if she could do such a thing, as dreadful, as unmaidenly to her as to the proudest beauty among his London friends.

From The King's Stratagem and Other Stories by Weyman, Stanley John

She began to fear lest she had been talking nonsense—been indiscreet and unmaidenly.

From Jessamine A Novel by Harland, Marion