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She would have spat in his face, but that struck her as being unladylike.
The study of Chinese was thought to be unladylike and went against the notion that only men should have access to the literature.
"Nay, not a bit, I'll say, but still no reason for you to be unladylike about it."
Anyway it was unladylike to travel on a scooter.
It first became popular because Europeans thought it was unladylike to drink alcohol.
He realizes that she wants to stamp her foot but refrains because the action would be unladylike.
But it had always been a struggle to teach Scarlett that most of her natural impulses were unladylike.
"Now why the hell should that be unladylike?
'It is unladylike for such words to come from such a beautiful mouth.'
Rilla has silly beliefs and ideas, and a fear of being unladylike.
She'd been able to thump Ealstan tight up to the day, a few years before, she'd decided it was unladylike.
"I'm going to be unladylike."
She also initially balked at pulling up her skirt to entice a passing driver to provide a ride, complaining that it was unladylike.
She sat a little sideways on the couch, with her feet tucked up, the way Alys had criticized and told her was unladylike.
James Hobson would not care if what she said was unladylike or did not reflect well on her husband or her family.
"Because it's-" Molly was about to say it was unladylike, but as the words formed in her mind, she heard the echo of Rodney's voice.
It would be unladylike, undignified, cowardly."
Hogg would not allow her Lady Techsters to wear knee or elbow pads because they were unladylike.
Ms. Genensky is seated, and although she is wearing slacks, the writer expressed dismay that her sitting position was unladylike.
"It'd be unladylike."
'Master Peachey reprimanded you only this morning for speaking thus - it is unladylike, he said!'
Derrick had taken off her spectacles when they came aboard the Manticore, reminding her that wearing them in public was unladylike and unbecoming.
Susan was kissing my chest and rubbing her body up against me in a fashion that was unladylike and extremely pleasant and distracting.
"You see, when I walk about the palace grounds or go into the city in my chair, it would be unladylike of me to point and say that one.
TO women who were taught that it is unladylike to express anger, the presumably therapeutic yelling and cursing of the current let-it-all-hang-out generation is often shocking.