unladilike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unladilike
form: most unladilike
Etymology: From un- + ladilike.
Senses: examples: 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?
ref: 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:
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.
ref: 1934, Babu Piche Lal [pseudonym; Charles Geoffrey Lloyd], “Uncle Sunshine”, in Higgledey-Piggledey, Bombay: The Times of India Press, →OCLC, page 21:
text: Showed a “lady” the weather forecast for the weekend—and she made a very unladilike remark.
ref: 1955 April 29, “Veatchcombing”, in Daily Sitka Sentinel and The Arrowhead Press, volume XVI, number 99, Sitka, Alas., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1, column 1:
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.
ref: 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:
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” . . .
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: 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)
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'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.
ref: 1995 June 2, Babs Woods, “cook upset”, in rec.food.cooking (Usenet), archived from the original on 02 Jun 2025:
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.)
ref: 1998 April 27, Joanne Dow, “Bad Blocks mapping and Low Level Format on HDs >4GB”, in comp.sys.amiga.hardware (Usenet), archived from the original on 02 Jun 2025:
text: Okay, show wheresh the party, shquire? *hic*
ref: 1999 October 25, Catherine, “An Announcement and a Thank You!”, in alt.cuddle (Usenet), archived from the original on 02 Jun 2025:
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.
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:
glosses: Rare spelling of unladylike.