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Recent Examples of ladyship
Which brings us, finally, to Lady M. delightfully encapsulated by Sondra Radvanovsky, who vocally embraces all her ladyship’s contradictions.
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Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 19 Sep. 2021
Her ladyship directed Richard and Henry to report on one another’s health in every letter home.
—Julie Flavell, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Aug. 2021
For almost a century, the Vogue treatment has been a perk of the first ladyship.
—BostonGlobe.com, 29 June 2021
Your ladyship The number of women India’s 25 high courts is rankling.
—Manavi Kapur, Quartz India, 7 Nov. 2019
Streep’s chastising of Trump in her acceptance speech at the Golden Globes was derided as a sniffy display of royal hauteur, as if her ladyship had gotten her blue sash in a twist.
—James Wolcott, The Hive, 19 June 2017
Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 19 Sep. 2021
Her ladyship directed Richard and Henry to report on one another’s health in every letter home.
—Julie Flavell, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Aug. 2021
For almost a century, the Vogue treatment has been a perk of the first ladyship.
—BostonGlobe.com, 29 June 2021
Your ladyship The number of women India’s 25 high courts is rankling.
—Manavi Kapur, Quartz India, 7 Nov. 2019
Streep’s chastising of Trump in her acceptance speech at the Golden Globes was derided as a sniffy display of royal hauteur, as if her ladyship had gotten her blue sash in a twist.
—James Wolcott, The Hive, 19 June 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ladyship
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Last summer, a local housekeeper inherited a few million dollars and some cats from her French madam, who shot herself on her Samui property.—
Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz,
Vulture,
4 Mar. 2025
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Throw in Morton, who has made amiable viciousness into a trademark of this phase of his career, and Catherine Tate as a Dutch brothel madam with a PhD, and Going Dutch has the sort of ensemble already in place for long-term laughs.—
Daniel Fienberg,
The Hollywood Reporter,
2 Jan. 2025
Noun
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There’s also murder and intrigue involving the secretary’s beautiful mistress, played by Sean Young.—
Martha Ross,
The Mercury News,
27 Feb. 2025
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In 1987, Hackman starred opposite Kevin Costner and Sean Young in Roger Donaldson's No Way Out, which finds his desperate government bigwig David Brice with blood on his hands after the accidental murder of his mistress.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
27 Feb. 2025
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Playing an acid-tongue dowager or master teacher of witchcraft came naturally to her, but what thrilled her about acting was its transformative freedom.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Sep. 2024
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There were pompous society dowagers with melting faces, young beauties with speckled dresses, unexpected sphinxes and nature spirits.—
Will Heinrich,
New York Times,
6 Feb. 2024
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The jury of matrons disappeared from Australia’s courts.—
Alice Neikirk,
Smithsonian Magazine,
8 July 2024
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Photos in front of the pulpit captured West’s her childhood and youthful beauty as well as the elegant matron who would come to be called Mother Rose by both her family and many students at her alma mater, Sacramento High School.—
Cathie Anderson,
Sacramento Bee,
24 Jan. 2025
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“Ladyship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ladyship. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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