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unlady-like

unlady-like is the alternative form of unladylike.

Meaning of unladylike

Adjective

unladylike (comparative more unladylike, superlative most unladylike)

  1. Not ladylike; ill-mannered.
    • Women enjoy being pursued, but men still don’t! They don’t want anything that seems too easy to win. If the woman takes the initiative—at least if she takes it conspicuously—the world will think her aggressive, and unladylike.1946, Clifford Rose Adams, Vance O. Packard, How to Pick a Mate

Forms of unlady-like

comparativemore unlady-like
superlativemost unlady-like

Origin of unlady-like

From un- + lady-like.

Questions about unlady-like

What is unlady-like the alternative form of?
Unlady-like is the alternative form of unladylike.

Words near unlady-like in the dictionary

  1. unladen
  2. unlades
  3. unladilike
  4. unlading
  5. unladings
  6. unlady-like
  7. unladylike
  8. unladylike-ly
  9. unladylikely
  10. unladylikeness
  11. unlagered

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unlady-like (page history and authors); unladylike (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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