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Found 3 hits - Term: ladylike, Database: *, Strategy: exact
[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
ladylike \la"dylike`\, a.
   1. like a lady in appearance or manners; well-bred.
      1913 webster

            she was ladylike, too, after the manner of the
            feminine gentility of those days.     --hawthorne.
      1913 webster

   2. becoming or suitable to a lady; as, ladylike manners.
      "with fingers ladylike." --warner.
      1913 webster

   3. delicate; tender; feeble; effeminate.
      1913 webster

            too ladylike a long fatigue to bear.  --dryden.
      1913 webster

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
ladylike
     adj : befitting a woman of good breeding; "ladylike manners"

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
59 moby thesaurus words for "ladylike":
   aristocratic, chivalrous, correct, courteous, courtly, cultivated,
   cultured, decorous, dignified, distaff, ducal, elegant, exalted,
   female, feminine, genteel, gentle, gentlemanlike, gentlemanly,
   gentlewomanlike, girlish, gracious, gynecic, gynecoid, gynic, high,
   highbred, kinglike, kingly, kittenish, knightly, little-girlish,
   maidenly, mannerly, matronal, matronlike, matronly, muliebral,
   noble, of gentle blood, of rank, patrician, petticoat, polished,
   polite, princelike, princely, proper, queenlike, queenly,
   quite the lady, refined, respectable, titled, well-bred,
   well-brought-up, womanish, womanlike, womanly





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