unladylikeadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈleɪdɪlʌɪk/, U.S. /ˌənˈleɪdiˌlaɪk/ Not ladylike; not characteristic of or appropriate to a lady.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [adjective] > unseemly > for specific people
unprincely1536
ungentlemanly1562
unprincelike1579
unroyala1586
knightless1590
ungentlemanlike1592
unknightly1596
unkingly1606
unregal1611
ungentlemanny1667
unqueenlike1679
unofficerlike1746
unladylike1766
unquality-like1784
ungentlewomanlike1789
unqueenly1819
unpatriarchal1836
1766 Monthly Rev. Jan. 78 Can the widow Blackacre's swearing..a very unlady-like oath, be thought to sound decently in the ears of a polite audience?
1792 R. Bage Man as he Is III. lxxxi. 256 She had only gout. It is certainly a very unlady-like disease.
1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village I. 229 A very discreditable and unladylike partiality, of which I am quite ashamed.
1856 G. J. Whyte-Melville Kate Coventry i. 4 She said it was improper and unladylike, and even unfeminine.
1938 E. Goudge Towers in Mist (1998) vii. 151 To shout was unladylike, and to throw up stones at the window was also unladylike.
1993 Times 31 Mar. 9/8 The women's antics are said to have included a mass scrummage, rugby tackles in the aisles, mooning..and singing unladylike songs.
2007 Procycling June 115/1 Freddie..couldn't believe that a lady would ever bring herself to be unladylike.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
<
adj.1766