[ adj ] befitting a woman of good breeding <adj.all> ladylike manners
Ladylike \La"dy*like`\, a. 1. Like a lady in appearance or manners; well-bred.
She was ladylike, too, after the manner of the feminine gentility of those days. --Hawthorne.
2. Becoming or suitable to a lady; as, ladylike manners. ``With fingers ladylike.'' --Warner.
3. Delicate; tender; feeble; effeminate.
Too ladylike a long fatigue to bear. --Dryden.
The accounting firm Price Waterhouse is being required to give a partnership and back pay to a woman who argued that she was denied the promotion because she was not sufficiently ladylike.