unladilike

comparative more unladilike · superlative most unladilike

1. rareRare spelling of unladylike.

   Showed a “lady” the weather forecast for the weekend—and she made a very unladilike remark.

   1955 April 29, “Veatchcombing”, in Daily Sitka Sentinel and The Arrowhead Press, volume XVI, number 99, Sitka, Alas., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1, column 1

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   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?

   p. 1903, E[dward] M[organ] Forster, “New Lucy”, in The Lucy Novels: Early Sketches for A Room with a View (The Abinger Edition of E. M. Forster; 3a), London: Edward Arnold, published 1977, →ISBN, page 115

   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.

   1934, Babu Piche Lal [pseudonym; Charles Geoffrey Lloyd], “Uncle Sunshine”, in Higgledey-Piggledey, Bombay: The Times of India Press, →OCLC, page 21

   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.

   1969 October, Richard Lupoff, “Man Swings SF”, in Sol Cohen, editor, Fantastic, volume 19, number 1, New York, N.Y.: Ultimate Publishing Co., →OCLC, page 49

   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” . . .

   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

   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)

   1995 March 9, Kevin Dreyer [signed Eileen], “Remington Steele”, in bit.listserv.rra-l (Usenet), archived from the original on 02 Jun 2025