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Recent Examples of ladylike
Rogge, in her debut for Marni, the Italian brand known for its ladylike quirkiness, had a similar approach: creative clothes for women and men who want to look like adults.
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Rachel Tashjian, CNN Money, 3 Mar. 2026
Prefer something more ladylike?
—Alison Syrett Cleary, Glamour, 25 Feb. 2026
It wasn’t supposed to be ladylike for a girl to joke.
—Lynn Hirschberg, Rolling Stone, 30 Jan. 2026
Top trends: The return of the heel and ladylike accessories was evident, with top-handle bags at The Row and Dior paired with feminine pumps.
—Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 15 Oct. 2025
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Rachel Tashjian, CNN Money, 3 Mar. 2026
Prefer something more ladylike?
—Alison Syrett Cleary, Glamour, 25 Feb. 2026
It wasn’t supposed to be ladylike for a girl to joke.
—Lynn Hirschberg, Rolling Stone, 30 Jan. 2026
Top trends: The return of the heel and ladylike accessories was evident, with top-handle bags at The Row and Dior paired with feminine pumps.
—Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 15 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for ladylike
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ladylike
Adjective
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In addition to his two-way excellence, Kopitar has won multiple Lady Byng trophies as the league’s most gentlemanly player.—
Andrew Knoll,
Daily News,
8 Apr. 2026
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Rising above the intraband fray, Weir remained gentlemanly and affable.—
David Browne,
Rolling Stone,
17 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Emin’s masterpiece thumbed its nose at a tradition of recumbent feminine flesh on tousled white sheets (think Titian’s Venus of Urbino, Manet’s Olympia, or any number of bosomy Lucian Freud nudes).—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 Apr. 2026
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Fans of adidas will love the brand's iconic three-stripe design featured heavily throughout, and newcomers who prefer a feminine touch might fall for some of the pieces in pastel colorways or the flowy, body-skimming styles.—
Kelsey Legg,
ABC News,
20 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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The maid, in Pistol’s chivalrous estimation, belonged to their lowly number.—
Taran Dugal,
New Yorker,
4 Mar. 2026
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And as the Sheriff called by Ludie to track Carrie down, Lance Arthur Smith is warm, soft-spoken and chivalrous.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
23 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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One of the earliest of American masculinity influencers was President Theodore Roosevelt, who touted his own transformation from a timid, effeminate man – local presses mocked him in his early career – to a rugged outdoorsman.—
Miriam Eve Mora,
The Conversation,
3 Apr. 2026
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Throughout the 1900s, and even into the ‘80s and ’90s, women often were encouraged to be more effeminate, and male counterparts were told to embrace their masculinity.—
Dallas Morning News,
Dallas Morning News,
29 Jan. 2026
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Pairing it with extra archipelago adventures and a trip to Bergen makes for a civilized adventure that still feels fresh and relatively untrodden.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
23 Apr. 2026
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For him, in becoming photosynthetic, civilized beings would only gain in hallmarks of intelligence, like autonomy and compassion, given that a species living off starlight converts energy to work without the messy, immoral mediation of a food chain.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
22 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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On the left: a photograph of a blurred womanly figure, her white dress smeared into an avian or angelic wingspan, her head eerily effaced, allowing the forest behind her to show sharply through.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
1 Dec. 2025
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Tarun would tease her, and my mother would look sorrowfully toward Kavitha, as if the two of them now shared some womanly burden.—
Madhuri Vijay,
New Yorker,
16 Nov. 2025
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Detecting such tiny numbers of atoms takes time, and the setup requires careful calibration and advanced equipment.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
25 Apr. 2026
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Be careful when handling debris that may have blown into your yard.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
25 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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In Benediction, Terence Davies had to split Siegfried Sassoon into two (Jack Lowden, Peter Capaldi) to create a comparably complex personality, but Scott’s Adam is all the more moving for being less refined, a performance of sustained fragility and unmanly truth.—
Armond White,
National Review,
29 Dec. 2023
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Why is his governess, Mrs. Brock, fired for encouraging Richard’s unmanly interest in poetry and music?—
Francine Prose,
The New York Review of Books,
22 Nov. 2018
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“Ladylike.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ladylike. Accessed 26 Apr. 2026.
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