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as in gentlemanly
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as in feminine
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Recent Examples of ladylike
Prefer something more ladylike?
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Alison Syrett Cleary, Glamour, 25 Feb. 2026
Monochromatic is a Selena Gomez calling card, who has fashioned a refined, ladylike sense of style over the years and established herself as an LBD devotee.
—Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 8 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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Alison Syrett Cleary, Glamour, 25 Feb. 2026
Monochromatic is a Selena Gomez calling card, who has fashioned a refined, ladylike sense of style over the years and established herself as an LBD devotee.
—Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 8 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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Rising above the intraband fray, Weir remained gentlemanly and affable.—
David Browne,
Rolling Stone,
17 Feb. 2026
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Jim Sawyer, a gentlemanly preacher and city council member whose public service had been winding towards a peaceful conclusion, was asked to replace him.—
Rob Picheta,
CNN Money,
7 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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The print that swaths each selection here nods to that sartorial inclination and channels feminine beauty at every angle.—
Stacia Datskovska,
Footwear News,
17 Mar. 2026
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In parts of America, the idea of a man doing anything that can be perceived as feminine is politically charged.—
Zachary Bernstein,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Mar. 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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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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Phil initially teases Peter for being weak and effeminate.—
Mathew Rodriguez,
Them.,
25 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The best actor nominee isn’t the only one noticing a significant change on the red carpet this season — though some events, like the annual VF Oscar Party, have always been more civilized than others.—
Rebecca Ford,
Vanity Fair,
12 Mar. 2026
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Denying them those opportunities in an attempt to punish their parents should be abhorrent to any civilized nation.—
Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board,
The Orlando Sentinel,
12 Mar. 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
Adjective
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This is not the first time the United States has taken careful aim in Iran and shot its own feet.—
Nicholas D. Kristof,
Mercury News,
21 Mar. 2026
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Kang noted that Demon Hunters’ visual style was consciously shaped by her lifelong love of anime and manhwa — Korean comics and graphic novels — and executed with careful attention to Korean linguistic and cultural nuances, even though the film’s lingua franca is American English.—
Dan Bilefsky,
HollywoodReporter,
21 Mar. 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 22 Mar. 2026.
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