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  • s  lacking the behavior or manner or style considered proper for a lady

  • For two long and bitter days they slugged it out, smashing serves with unladylike power, skirmishing boldly at the net, fighting off the cramps of fatigue and responding to .
  • Hence too the many cunning and often unladylike features of primate motherhood: the sexual promiscuity that, in some species, may help ensure the acquisition of top-grade sperm .
  • Jailed suffragists like Alice Paul used hunger strikes in the early 20th century to rattle President Woodrow Wilson, who denounced such tactics as appalling and "unladylike .
News & Articles

  • Fucking on the First Date? How It Worked Out for 8 Women
    On the hundred-something first dates I’ve had, I’ve been taken to Burger King, the car wash, and an NA meeting; I’ve left after five minutes, cried after six drinks, and engaged in many unladylike things. But sex on a first date? No way. (Or rather, in the name of journalistic ... More »
    June 17, 2013 - New York Magazine
Quotes

  • Philip Roth in Washington Post
    Novelist Philip Roth praised her for an "understanding of loneliness, lust, selfishness and fatigue that is splendidly comic and unladylike."
  • David Maraniss in Chicago Sun-Times
    Women wanted to run longer distances,Maraniss writes, "while Brundage and some other traditionalists thought anything beyond once around the oval track was unladylike."

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