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Example sentences for "unladylike"

Lexicographically close words:
unlacing; unlade; unladed; unladen; unlading; unlaid; unlash; unlashed; unlatch; unlatched
  1. Quite apart from the fact that you must have behaved in a very childish and unladylike fashion to make the girl so uncomfortable, you have also done me an injury.

  2. To a young woman, they warn her of unladylike conduct towards her lover.

  3. To see one broken down, foretells accident or serious loss For a young woman to ride on one, denotes she will engage in some unladylike and obnoxious affair.

  4. Miss Belcher dived a hand into a fold of her skirt, and drew forth a most unladylike clasp-knife.

  5. Whistling is at all times an unladylike accomplishment, even though one whistle like a mavis.

  6. Marjorie turned, and gaped in the most unladylike manner.

  7. Miss Gaymer was breathing expansively upon the glass of the window, and assiduously scribbling a pattern thereon with her finger--an infantile and unladylike habit of which her nurse thought she had cured her at the age of eight.

  8. I know it was an abominable and unladylike thing to say, but my tongue sometimes runs away with my thoughts.

  9. I've never heard such unladylike words in a drawing-room in my life.

  10. Had grannie seen me, I would have been lectured about unladylike behaviour.

  11. I s'pose I'm terribly unladylike to tell you.

  12. She, who must never be so unladylike as to enter a polling-place, had breathed into her very mouth the clerkling's virile electoral odor of cigarettes and onions and decayed teeth.

  13. Is there anything unladylike in `all right,' or `a spree?

  14. It was unladylike and unkind," said Mrs Derwent.

  15. And it is extremely unladylike for a girl to bear a boy's name.

  16. The girls knew it and Miss Cora knew it, and this helped to make the latter feel in a still more unkindly mood toward the girl with the "unladylike name.

  17. From my personal experience of her I could not have believed her capable of unladylike conduct.

  18. I shall at once report your unladylike conduct to Mrs. Morrison.

  19. She reproached them for unladylike conduct, loss of dignity, and lack of discipline.

  20. Think I'm hanging around here to see a parcel of girls be as unladylike as they can?

  21. Bobby was perched on the corner of Mr. Sharp's desk, in a most unladylike attitude, and apparently just removing a burning cigarette from her rosy lips!

  22. Remember, that such unladylike conduct must never happen again at the hostel.

  23. I'll tell her you thought her unladylike if you wish; but I think both she and Gatty are first-rate Girls.

  24. Peaches, suddenly shaking my hand with a grip of most unladylike vigor.

  25. I exclaimed, shocked at this strange and unladylike upheaval.

  26. Even if she does know a thing very well, she should keep her knowledge in the background; there is a graceful timidity that is far more attractive than such unladylike confidence.

  27. Anne was tanned by the winds of moor and sea, she had a superb majestic figure, and strode when she took her exercise in a thoroughly unladylike manner.

  28. As she entered the capital she suddenly became aware that she was holding her skirts high over her hoop in a most unladylike manner.

  29. Speaking to strangers in that free manner is a most unladylike thing.

  30. Shall I tell you why I did what Aunt Pen would call a very unladylike and improper thing, Mr. Evan?

  31. She went the length--the very unladylike length--of taking him by the hand.

  32. She approached dear Mr. Godfrey at a most unladylike rate of speed, with her hair shockingly untidy, and her face, what I should call, unbecomingly flushed.

  33. Don't you think it's unladylike to have your muscles all hard and developed?

  34. Oh-Pshaw hastily, steering the conversation away from muscles and kindred unladylike topics.

  35. Oh, I don't think it makes girls unladylike to learn how to swim," she defended.

  36. It is chiefly done to draw out her smart repartees, and the unladylike answers which have made her so famous (or rather infamous).

  37. Shall I tell you why I did what Aunt Pen would call a very unladylike and improper thing, Mr. Evans?

  38. One of the most vicious conventions is that which makes vigorous play vulgar and unladylike for girls.

  39. According to her theory, young ladies should never be so unladylike as to have great purposes or great ideas.

  40. You think I was very rude and unladylike in my replies to you during that last interesting ride we took.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unladylike" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.