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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.
—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
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
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How could the story of New York’s most notorious madam, a woman who had the likes of Dutch Schultz, Wallace Beery, Robert Benchley, and Dorothy Parker as regulars throughout the Roaring Twenties be boring?—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Jan. 2026
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Many described Maxwell as acting as a madam who recruited them to give massages to Epstein.—
Ashleigh Fields,
The Hill,
13 Dec. 2025
Noun
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Hindsight is a fickle mistress.—
Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
4 Jan. 2026
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The musical, about a film director named Guido Contini contending with a midlife crisis, starred the likes of Antonio Banderas, Laura Benanti, and Chita Rivera—but Krakowski’s turn as Guido’s mistress was a highlight.—
Keaton Bell,
Vogue,
2 Jan. 2026
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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.—
Baz Bamigboye,
Deadline,
22 July 2025
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The empress dowager’s legacy Empress Dowager Ling was largely unsuccessful in her bid for power.—
Stephanie Balkwill,
The Conversation,
17 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Her version of the middle-aged matron was a gentle innocent who faced the world with an unself-conscious enthusiasm.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
15 Dec. 2025
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It is named after Miss Ruby Stokes, who was a matron of the hospital in the 1920s.—
Liam Hess,
Vogue,
26 Nov. 2025
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“Ladyship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ladyship. Accessed 15 Jan. 2026.
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