ladylike manners. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
It may not have been what my mother would have called ladylike, but I missed it. From Wordnik.com. [Not the Girl Next Door] Reference
She has what I can only describe as a ladylike laugh, lips slightly parted, more a smile than a laugh. From Wordnik.com. [Coffee] Reference
That's not endearing and it's certainly not "ladylike". From Wordnik.com. [Clinton takes on TV pundits at distillery stop in Kentucky] Reference
Pretty much my whole wardrobe is "ladylike," what can I say?. From Wordnik.com. [Ladylike Perfumes. Perfume Review: Floris Florissa] Reference
My sister was much more "ladylike," in many ways, but she, too, was smart. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-03-01] Reference
If she's not considered "ladylike" enough, could this ruin Obama's chances?. From Wordnik.com. [Forget Black President: Is America Ready for a Black First Lady?] Reference
Marina writes of it as being "ladylike" and it is. From Wordnik.com. [Perfume-Smellin' Things Perfume Blog] Reference
And Jay's comment about her not being "ladylike" was just annoying. From Wordnik.com. [AfterEllen.com - Because visibility matters] Reference
She also correlates fat with sexuality and thin with "ladylike" manners. From Wordnik.com. [Stephanie Klein's Greek Tragedy] Reference
While getting out of a car, Miley failed to do so in a "ladylike" fashion. From Wordnik.com. [FrontPage Magazine] Reference
It's heartbreaking for people like your dad who see a once "ladylike" wife turn into a. From Wordnik.com. [Homepage | INFORUM | Fargo, ND] Reference
Some of the beds tend to be positioned a little too high and it is not very "ladylike" to climb on top of it with a micro mini skirt on. From Wordnik.com. [Giddy Tigers] Reference
Chicken Little answered in a most ladylike small voice. From Wordnik.com. [Chicken Little Jane] Reference
And as a consequence, everything was so much more ladylike. From Wordnik.com. [Repeal the 19th Amendment!] Reference
"Girls don't have to be babies to be ladylike," added Bert. From Wordnik.com. [The Bobbsey Twins at the Seashore] Reference
I believe they bear a close relation to ladylike deportment. From Wordnik.com. [Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out] Reference
"I cannot be considered your friend if you will not be -- ladylike --". From Wordnik.com. [Dorothy Dale : a girl of today] Reference
"They've lost the sense of encouraging their daughters to be ladylike.". From Wordnik.com. [Girls Going Mild(er)] Reference
He was tall and slender, very dapper and rather ladylike in his bearing. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School The Merry Doings of the Oakdale Freshmen Girls] Reference
In all of these positions, Clotelle sustained herself in a most ladylike manner. From Wordnik.com. [Clotelle; or, the Colored Heroine, a tale of the Southern States; or, the President's Daughter] Reference
Janice to some of the girls, there were but a few who met her in a ladylike manner. From Wordnik.com. [Janice Day at Poketown] Reference
Ladies, in other words, tend to be ladylike, while gentlemen are frequently ungentlemanly. From Wordnik.com. [The readers' room: what you thought of G2 this week] Reference
Mrs. Caldwell thought grey a ladylike colour, and therefore bought Beth a carmelite dress of. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
Oh, I am not afraid, Grace Carter, so you needn't tease; but I prefer more ladylike amusements. From Wordnik.com. [The Automobile Girls in the Berkshires The Ghost of Lost Man's Trail] Reference
No woman is entitled to any more attention than her loveliness and ladylike conduct will command. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
They scanned Chrysantheme with a look of obvious scorn, although her costume was as ladylike as their own. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The ladylike Kerr eroticized her image in "From Here to Eternity," tangling in the waves with Burt Lancaster. From Wordnik.com. [Famous In Life, Noted In Passing] Reference
"She's the ladylike member of The Merriweather Girls 'Club," smiled Bet with an affectionate glance toward Joy. From Wordnik.com. [The Merriweather Girls in Quest of Treasure] Reference
He was nearly always accompanied by a dog, spotlessly white, the most ladylike of her species I remember to have seen. From Wordnik.com. [Schwartz: A History From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray] Reference
Amiable to a fault, Best Coast played its raucous pop at a ladylike volume, and paused now and then for offhand chatter. From Wordnik.com. [In concert: Best Coast at Rock & Roll Hotel] Reference
Our girls and women can always render a great service to the race by their ladylike deportment upon the public highways. From Wordnik.com. [Sparkling Gems of Race Knowledge Worth Reading A compendium of valuable information and wise suggestions that will inspire noble effort at the hands of every race-loving man, woman, and child.] Reference
Having delicately wiped his face with a ladylike handkerchief in memory of his danger and gratitude, Melchard tried again. From Wordnik.com. [Ambrotox and Limping Dick] Reference
She also displays a most ladylike tendency on the present occasion to what is technically called ride her horse's head off. From Wordnik.com. [Belles and Ringers] Reference
My Serena is something like her, but, being so much with Gertrude, she is a little less ladylike in manners than I could wish. From Wordnik.com. [Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island] Reference
I think myself a bit of something light and nice, like eclairs or a charlotte russe, is ever so much more ladylike and nice. '. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 664, September 22,1888] Reference
Sometimes a company will implement an idea that makes me want to stand up, take notice, and perhaps dance a restrained ladylike jig. From Wordnik.com. [Classic Short Stories Newly Illustrated: Will You Read Them?] Reference
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