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It was dirty, my mother said, unlady-like, but it didn't seem to matter when I had other lady features: breasts, for example, or long blond hair.
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My language has been described as unlady-like at best and drunken sailor-like at worst.
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My language has been described as unlady-like at best and drunken sailor-like at worst.
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After accomplishing that unlady-like task, I was feeling pretty damn good about myself, feeling a little more empowered — a little more cocky, a little more back-to-the-middle of middle age.
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However, her impression that women use more tag-questions ( "Nice day, isn't it?" because they're socialized to believe that assertion is unlady-like) is not so outdated, but these days, men also use the tag-question hedging technique.
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After accomplishing that unlady-like task, I was feeling pretty damn good about myself, feeling a little more empowered — a little more cocky, a little more back-to-the-middle of middle age.
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And, yes, there ` s even something we can all learn from these unlady-like battles.
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In it, the hotel heiress is begging for the camera ` s attention and throwing out some rather unlady-like language.
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Then you go into the bathrooms and are both mervelled and perplexed at the remote control sized panel on the side of the toilet with random buttons for "flushing noises" that last for 25 seconds but don't actually flush the water anyway (so the instructions on the wall say) because it's considered unlady-like for anyone else to hear you pee.
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Hovering over the porcelain bowl in a very unlady-like way.
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