Meaning

Of or having the qualities of a lady..

Definitions by Sense

1. Of or having the qualities of a lady.
2. In the manner of a lady.

Example Sentences

But will the suppression of the population of the poor, receive the sanction of any but the lordly or ladily aristocrat?

The healer of the sick, whether physician or veterinarian, can by certain known remedies allay the irritations arising from merely functional derangements, but when the sable king in his ladily aspect and with fatal fangs approaches, skill is at once absorbed, and the ‘medicine man’ stands before the ‘grisly monster,’ a spectacle of utter impotency.

Even among the most lordly or (or “ladily”) of mankind, painting of the skin is still de riguener with the female sex.

[…]gentlemanly and ladily etchings of “Colonel Jack Robbing Mrs Smith” or “Captain Hind Robbing Colonel Harrison” (using the same stage-like scenery) are matched in American legend (see Carol Strickland’s article) by the fictions of “the iconography of mourning” in the graveyard[…]

His wife is a fine looking woman, ladily and dignified in her expression and bearing.[…]She sent me some tea-cakes by her grandma, Mrs. Cartwright, an energetic, kind hearted, sensible and ladily woman.

Her gait / Is slow-sharp and ladily and / Interestingly very natural.

[…]a lady at the table talked so ladily of the Poets that I drank off my glass very often almost without knowing[…]

Ladies in English legend have been known to turn into foxes; but do so ladily, in a properly lady-like manner.

Word Forms

• more ladily
• most ladily
• ladyly

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When Should You Use Ladily?

Use ladily when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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