Unladylike
[ʌn'leɪdɪ,laɪk]
Definition
(adj.) lacking the behavior or manner or style considered proper for a lady .
Inputed by Gretchen--From WordNet
Examples
- Unladylike language! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I detest rude, unladylike girls! Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- She went the length--the very unladylike length--of taking him by the hand. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Worcester, in a very long, dismal letter, acquainted me that I had been seen, in a very odd, unladylike kind of dress close to Oxford. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Not tetchy, mamma: you never hear me speak in an unladylike way. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- This is almost unladylike. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
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