Antonyms for ladylike

Grammar : Adj

Spell : ley-dee-lahyk

Phonetic Transcription : ˈleɪ diˌlaɪk

Definition of ladylike

Origin : also lady-like, 1580s; see lady + like. Middle English had ladily "queenly, exalted" (late 14c.).

adj feminine

Example sentences :

Her slight figure might not be beautiful, but beyond doubt its lines were ladylike.
Extract from : « The Market-Place » by Harold Frederic

In it dwelt a gentlemanly elderly man with two ladylike daughters.
Extract from : « Memoirs » by Charles Godfrey Leland

Course, you wouldn't expect him to have any gentle, ladylike voice, and he don't.
Extract from : « Torchy As A Pa » by Sewell Ford

When the people were gentlemanly and ladylike, they became great bores.
Extract from : « Confessions of a Book-Lover » by Maurice Francis Egan

"I ain't as ladylike as you," said Henderson, in his tender way.
Extract from : « Still Jim » by Honor Willsie Morrow

In all of these positions, Clotelle sustained herself in a most ladylike manner.
Extract from : « Clotelle » by William Wells Brown

"Most ladylike," he muttered, squinting through the bandages.
Extract from : « The Wreck of the Titan » by Morgan Robertson

But do you think you have treated Mrs. Martin in a ladylike way?
Extract from : « The Faith Doctor » by Edward Eggleston

Her one desire seemed to be to be ladylike and to go with the best people.
Extract from : « Hester's Counterpart » by Jean K. Baird

It is not seemly; and, if feminine, is at any rate not ladylike.
Extract from : « The Bertrams » by Anthony Trollope

Synonyms for ladylike

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