young-lady-like

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Resembling or characteristic of a young lady.

   • You, who do not love writing, cannot think that any one else does: but I am sorry to say that I have a very young-lady-like partiality to writing to those that I love……
   • This is not a very novel incident, but young ladies like stories of love and murder, and Miss Fidler’s tastes were peculiarly young-lady-like.
   • In that post-war moment of class mobility and a burgeoning popular youth culture, she was able to represent modernity and liberation, while remaining respectably 'young-lady-like'.
2. 2

   In the manner of a young lady.

   • Her young Lady was ſo tenacious, ſhe ſaid, (young Lady like) of her authority, that ſhe would never forgive her if ſhe were known to make an appeal to me, or to my aunt.
   • Agatha made some unintelligible answer. She thought Nathanael’s quick eyes darted from her to Mrs. Ianson and back again, as if to judge whether, young-lady-like, she had told his secret to all her female friends.

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• neighborladylike