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Recent Examples of ladyship
Which brings us, finally, to Lady M. delightfully encapsulated by Sondra Radvanovsky, who vocally embraces all her ladyship’s contradictions.
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Chris Jones,
chicagotribune.com,
19 Sep. 2021
Her ladyship directed Richard and Henry to report on one another’s health in every letter home.
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Julie Flavell,
Smithsonian Magazine,
16 Aug. 2021
For almost a century, the Vogue treatment has been a perk of the first ladyship.
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BostonGlobe.com,
29 June 2021
Your ladyship The number of women India’s 25 high courts is rankling.
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Manavi Kapur,
Quartz India,
7 Nov. 2019
Streep’s chastising of Trump in her acceptance speech at the Golden Globes was derided as a sniffy display of royal hauteur, as if her ladyship had gotten her blue sash in a twist.
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James Wolcott,
The Hive,
19 June 2017
Chris Jones,
chicagotribune.com,
19 Sep. 2021
Her ladyship directed Richard and Henry to report on one another’s health in every letter home.
—
Julie Flavell,
Smithsonian Magazine,
16 Aug. 2021
For almost a century, the Vogue treatment has been a perk of the first ladyship.
—
BostonGlobe.com,
29 June 2021
Your ladyship The number of women India’s 25 high courts is rankling.
—
Manavi Kapur,
Quartz India,
7 Nov. 2019
Streep’s chastising of Trump in her acceptance speech at the Golden Globes was derided as a sniffy display of royal hauteur, as if her ladyship had gotten her blue sash in a twist.
—
James Wolcott,
The Hive,
19 June 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ladyship
Noun
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This, dear sirs and madams, is where your policy reaches a truly impressive level of bureaucratic creativity.
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Ladies’ first big blowup concerns a rumor that an old fair-weather friend of Myka’s is a madam.
Noun
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On the other hand, Dunaway and her tart-talking sidekick, Brenda Vaccaro, seem to be having the time of their lives as mistresses of the shades of darkness (their ramshackle abode is a funhouse Ghost Train ride festooned with skeletons, spiders and tattered netting).
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The Paradise actress guest-starred on the series in 2007 as Tony Soprano's mistress.
Noun
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The show’s underpinned by the differences in character and country of Lady Cora and her formidable mother-in-law, the dowager Countess Violet Crawley, played by the equally formidable and much missed Dame Maggie Smith.
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The empress dowager’s legacy Empress Dowager Ling was largely unsuccessful in her bid for power.
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The May 28 fire tore through a dormitory housing 202 students at the Utumishi Girls School in central Kenya, and students were forced to flee through a single doorway when the school matron failed to open an emergency exit.
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The matron on duty, Annie Leewright, booked the woman into jail.
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“Ladyship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ladyship. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.
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