Ladyly

Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective

Meaning

Alternative spelling of ladily..

Example Sentences

Sheridan (no less by birth than marriage degraded below the established standard) was eventually elevated as high as the breath of lordly and ladyly adulation could bear him.

We do not refer to the fashionable annuals, those very ineffable bulletins of lordly and ladyly inanity;

They all looked affronted at being asked to meet each other; and every time the door opened, I saw them looking out anxiously for some lordly or ladyly arrival.

As Clara thus deteriorated—at least what Mr. and Mrs. de Saumarez called deterioration—becoming more concentrated in her mental turbulence, so to speak, and more vehement and impassioned every way, Alice improved so rapidly that the very servants learned to call her the “most ladyly” and the “best mistress of the two;” for servants are excellent judges of conventional breeding.

In British mystery fiction the hero works for pay, because he is a part of the official police force or a private investigator; sometimes he or she works merely for gentlemanly or ladyly fun.

I will be careful not to poison Flushie. He is growing so fine-ladyly delicate, that he expects, I believe, to be nourished upon macaroons & dews, or some such fairy dieting.

On my asking if she did not admire the melody of his versification, she replied, very ladyly, that she did in all that she had read of his, which was only a few stray songs that had fallen in her way.

In short, it was a real folk-song, the work of the people, and the burden was either older, or was a corruption of “Dance over ladyly” (i.e., “dance forward gracefully”).

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• more ladyly
• most ladyly

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