Brangwen's girl had put on a ladylike manner, but her voice betrayed her.
Playing basketball isn't ladylike. That's what Jewell Chapman's high school principal told her in 1961 when he banned the girls basketball program.
Maybe, somebody think I girl who is ladylike me should take much more social responsibility.
At 16, though her parents wished she would do something ladylike, such as learning French, she was touring professionally round the bullrings of Latin America.
Mr. Wu’s clothes are most often described as ladylike and seem to belong to an earlier era, meaning polished jackets, flower prints and dresses with nipped waists and teacup skirts.
Katie does double denim with her Paige "Bell Canyon" flares in Beverly Hills, while Jessica picks a ladylike bow blouse and studded bag in Toronto.
He must have had, it is conjectured, a rather ladylike appearance as a young man.
In those days it was not considered ladylike to go to work once you were married.
At least in subconscious, they feel reading a book in tea shop means they are ladylike or gentler.
Best known for her ladylike pillbox hats and skirt suits, she chose pale colours that would look good in black-and-white and wasn't afraid to take risks in preppy cropped pants.
Winona Ryder, usually seen in blue jeans and tight tops, was buttoned into ladylike outfits by Marc Jacobs for her trial on shoplifting charges in Los Angeles in 2002.
