unladylikely
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In an unladylike manner.
Example Sentences
- "Mother looked as if she onged to be a man for just one minute while she expressed herself strongly and unladylikely."
- "In the first place the headgear did not fuly^([sic]) conceal the stubbly chins of the women, and they had a general tread that was not stately enough to bespeak them as “nice girls,” so there was no acceptance of the challenge, but my, O me, they did have a lot of fun out of it before it was over, for a nine of men was made up, and they went after the skirts quite unladylikely."
- "“Omigosh,” I gasped, unladylikely."
- "Why, when I got your letter, I just danced, very unladylikely, all over the room!"
- "“I can’t be a sponsor anymore.” she wept unladylikely."
- "The only time that she forgets she went to the Spence school is when Mr. Gilhooley affectionately chokes her (and a good thing too) and then she dies so gorgeously and so unladylikely that the audience cheers right up and thinks maybe she got what she wanted."
Etymology
From unladylike + -ly.