"unlady-like" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

Forms: more unlady-like [comparative], most unlady-like [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj|head=unlady-like}} unlady-like (comparative more unlady-like, superlative most unlady-like)
  1. Alternative form of unladylike. Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: unladylike
    Sense id: en-unlady-like-en-adj-dEkvNhZJ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

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          "text": "Charles. Say—why that it was a most unlady-like piece of business. Sarah. And why if it is so unlady-like to do it, how do you make it out that it is so very gentlemanly to do it. Charles. That’s altogether a different thing. Gentlemen do many things which it would be very unlady-like for a lady to do. Sarah. No doubt, but that does not answer my question. What is there that is so specially gentlemanly in your smoking, and so specially unlady-like in my doing the same.",
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