LADYLIKE

ladylike. Ladylike, a. soft, delicate, elegant, fine genteel

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La″dy‐like′ (?), a. 1. 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. 2. Becoming or suitable to a lady; as, ladylike manners. “With fingers ladylike.” Warner.
3. 3. Delicate; tender; feeble; effeminate.
Too ladylike a long fatigue to bear. Dryden.