Ladyly
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Ladyly is an adjective meaning Alternative spelling of ladily.
Meaning
Alternative spelling of ladily.
Example Sentences
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.
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”).
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.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include workly, lawly, liquidly, crusilly, killerly, litherly.
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