young-lady-like
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.81 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a young lady.
adv
In the manner of a young lady.
Example Sentences
- "You, who do not love writing, cannot think that any one else does: but I am sorry to say that I have a very young-lady-like partiality to writing to those that I love……"
- "This is not a very novel incident, but young ladies like stories of love and murder, and Miss Fidler’s tastes were peculiarly young-lady-like."
- "In that post-war moment of class mobility and a burgeoning popular youth culture, she was able to represent modernity and liberation, while remaining respectably 'young-lady-like'."
- "Her young Lady was ſo tenacious, ſhe ſaid, (young Lady like) of her authority, that ſhe would never forgive her if ſhe were known to make an appeal to me, or to my aunt."
- "Agatha made some unintelligible answer. She thought Nathanael’s quick eyes darted from her to Mrs. Ianson and back again, as if to judge whether, young-lady-like, she had told his secret to all her female friends."
- "The lecturer, young-lady-like, was shocked at the idea of a “new birth.” Alluding to Miss [Anna Elizabeth] Dickinson’s remarks, that the slain in battle were dying[,] that the nation, under God, might have a new birth of freedom, she thought it strange that a nation so young should require regeneration."
Etymology
From young lady + -like.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more young-lady-like (comparative)
most young-lady-like (superlative)
young ladylike (alternative)
young-ladylike (alternative)