Word info

lady-like

Adjective

Meaning

lady-like (comparative more lady-like, superlative most lady-like)

Alternative form of ladylike.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

The birch, most shy and lady-like of trees, Her poverty, as best she may, retrieves, And hints at her foregone gentilities With some saved relics of her wealth of leaves. James Russell Lowell

I wouldn't have ate it, only I'm too lady-like to take it out of my mouth. George Bernard Shaw

Charles went towards the table, but he had no lady-like powers of filling four sheets with nothing, and the letter was soon sealed. Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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