Sentence examples for ladylike behavior from inspiring English sources

The car arrives in Chelsea, at the home of Lauren Santo Domingo, a contributing editor at Vogue who is serving dinner for 40 in honor of Mr. Blasberg's first book, "Classy," a primer on ladylike behavior.

Why? "Women aren't women anymore" -- and this decline in ladylike behavior is leading to a whole lot of unmarried women looking for husbands.

This is simply not ladylike behavior.

Be on your best, most ladylike behavior all the time the pageant.

Being selfish and having a nasty attitude toward others is not very ladylike behavior.

But she has played characters who curse indiscriminately ("The Good Girl"), defy their parents ("Almost Famous"), and reject the men who love them ("500 Days of Summer") -- not exactly ladylike behaviors -- and her laugh (which Yuan describes rapturously as "as the joyous union of a bray, a bark, and a honk") is decidedly unfeminine.

It was an appropriate time for me to introduce myself as soon possible, because the Factory Whore generally doesn't last too long on the job before she's caught up in some version of sexual mischief, blackmail, or otherwise un-ladylike behavior.

Finally, keep a special particular purpose in manner or behavior, and stay ladylike.

Gender expectations are often used to correct behavior with admonitions like "Big boys don't cry" and "It's not ladylike to swear".

It's very ladylike and when you DON'T talk about things like that and don't engage yourself in those behaviors, you send off a mysterious aura about yourself.

Ladylike shoes.