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"text": "The road [above: ⟨far⟩] ⟨joins towns together⟩: it promotes trade \\& prudence/ and culture and the interchange of opinions: who could be unladilike [sic] upon the road?",
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"ref": "1934, Babu Piche Lal [pseudonym; Charles Geoffrey Lloyd], “Uncle Sunshine”, in Higgledey-Piggledey, Bombay: The Times of India Press, →OCLC, page 21:",
"text": "The more I looked askance through my fingers, (pretending of course to be looking otherwise and elsewhere) by so much the more I was certainly positive that large lady is my wife indeed, and spying my comings-out and goings-in. Surely a rather shameful act to do. Eh? also unladilike.",
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"text": "Showed a “lady” the weather forecast for the weekend—and she made a very unladilike remark.",
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"text": "I was expelled from Our Glorious Lady a week before graduation for what the Sisters called “unladilike conduct,” but it was too late to take my name and picture out of the Platelet.",
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"ref": "1971 January 7, Jack O’Brian, “Voice of Broadway: Cancel Night for Ill Noel”, in The Jersey Journal and Jersey Observer, 104th year, number 209, Jersey City, N.J., →OCLC, page 25, column 7:",
"text": "Boby Rosengarden’s band manages quickly to size up the topic of any discussion, and at commercial breakaway time play something entertainingly apriate:^([sic]) For the unladlike are-models-nasty-or-nice wrangle by Ford & Co.—Bobby’s band’s contribution was David Raksin’s nifty composition “The Bad and the Beautiful” . . .",
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"ref": "1995 March 9, Kevin Dreyer [signed Eileen], “Remington Steele”, in bit.listserv.rra-l (Usenet), archived from the original on 02 Jun 2025:",
"text": "I saw the first part of the episode. And here I always thought I liked Pierce Brosnan best well-groomed and suave. I think I like him angry and dirty even better 8-P(tongue hanging out in most unladilike fashion)",
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"ref": "1995 June 2, Babs Woods, “cook upset”, in rec.food.cooking (Usenet), archived from the original on 02 Jun 2025:",
"text": "I'm not a patient person, actually, and I have quite a temper (for which I'm known). I can be rather unladilike in some of my responses and there is a point at which I willingly give up the pretense of civility and simply attack. I learned this from having to put up with my mother.",
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"text": "You can write multiple blocks anywhere else on the drive but not block zero. I consider this to be a *MAJOR* defect in the Quantum drives. And it forces me to reverse my stance on low level format utilities - with *GREAT* reluctance. (I have been known to use \"impolite\" and \"unladilike\" language before. I think I may have melted part of that poor disk drive the way I addressed it. It had a \"wilted look\" when I got done. And it still persisted in its bad behavior.)",
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"ref": "1999 October 25, Catherine, “An Announcement and a Thank You!”, in alt.cuddle (Usenet), archived from the original on 02 Jun 2025:",
"text": "Okay, show wheresh the party, shquire? *hic*",
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"ref": "2006, C.A. [i.e., Carolann] Davids, “Mysterious city disappearances continue”, in Twist: Short Stories Inspired by Tabloid Headlines, Cape Town: Oshun Books, →ISBN, page 184:",
"text": "My mother used to scold me when I put my feet up against the wall like that. She said I would dirty the surface, but I don’t think she knew why it bothered her. Maybe she thought it was unladilike or a sign of laziness, maybe too much pride.",
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"text": "The road [above: ⟨far⟩] ⟨joins towns together⟩: it promotes trade \\& prudence/ and culture and the interchange of opinions: who could be unladilike [sic] upon the road?",
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"text": "The more I looked askance through my fingers, (pretending of course to be looking otherwise and elsewhere) by so much the more I was certainly positive that large lady is my wife indeed, and spying my comings-out and goings-in. Surely a rather shameful act to do. Eh? also unladilike.",
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83
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102
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"text": "I was expelled from Our Glorious Lady a week before graduation for what the Sisters called “unladilike conduct,” but it was too late to take my name and picture out of the Platelet.",
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177
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"text": "Boby Rosengarden’s band manages quickly to size up the topic of any discussion, and at commercial breakaway time play something entertainingly apriate:^([sic]) For the unladlike are-models-nasty-or-nice wrangle by Ford & Co.—Bobby’s band’s contribution was David Raksin’s nifty composition “The Bad and the Beautiful” . . .",
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"text": "I saw the first part of the episode. And here I always thought I liked Pierce Brosnan best well-groomed and suave. I think I like him angry and dirty even better 8-P(tongue hanging out in most unladilike fashion)",
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111
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"text": "I'm not a patient person, actually, and I have quite a temper (for which I'm known). I can be rather unladilike in some of my responses and there is a point at which I willingly give up the pretense of civility and simply attack. I learned this from having to put up with my mother.",
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286
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"text": "You can write multiple blocks anywhere else on the drive but not block zero. I consider this to be a *MAJOR* defect in the Quantum drives. And it forces me to reverse my stance on low level format utilities - with *GREAT* reluctance. (I have been known to use \"impolite\" and \"unladilike\" language before. I think I may have melted part of that poor disk drive the way I addressed it. It had a \"wilted look\" when I got done. And it still persisted in its bad behavior.)",
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"ref": "1999 October 25, Catherine, “An Announcement and a Thank You!”, in alt.cuddle (Usenet), archived from the original on 02 Jun 2025:",
"text": "Okay, show wheresh the party, shquire? *hic*",
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"ref": "2006, C.A. [i.e., Carolann] Davids, “Mysterious city disappearances continue”, in Twist: Short Stories Inspired by Tabloid Headlines, Cape Town: Oshun Books, →ISBN, page 184:",
"text": "My mother used to scold me when I put my feet up against the wall like that. She said I would dirty the surface, but I don’t think she knew why it bothered her. Maybe she thought it was unladilike or a sign of laziness, maybe too much pride.",
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