They adopt feminine dress, footwear donned not for wear but for show, and an affected effeminate gait. |
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Using polite forms and neutral pronouns with peers is considered effeminate. |
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That's the thing with a lot of straight guys, they think that because we're gay we're submissive and all effeminate and we're going to back down. |
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One of them was a skinny, young black fellow who wore spectacles and spoke with an effeminate voice. |
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And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not? |
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Smith spends the remainder of the film chomping on cigars with an effeminate scientist. |
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Then two old ladies started kicking up a fuss telling the boys off, making the bigger one get protective of the more effeminate one. |
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Nearly every Englishman of working-class origin considers it effeminate to pronounce a foreign word correctly. |
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What Westerners construed as effeminate is in fact virile, an assertion of perfected control and independence. |
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While I was at High School, there was a guy in the year above me who was picked on and teased mercilessly because he was effeminate. |
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He had an adolescent plumpness, a soft body, almost effeminate, with pale saggy legs. |
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Thus they make a great point of being hostile to gay men, especially to effeminate gay men. |
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Track down that effeminate foreigner who plagues our women with this new disease, and fouls the whole land with licentious lechery. |
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And how is the knowledge that all gay men aren't effeminate and all straight men aren't butch going to help you pick between the men exactly? |
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He begins speaking in a high-pitched whine and uses effeminate hand gestures. |
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Gay males are often more effeminate, yes, but I don't know any females who lisp like that. |
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That would offend the mouth breathers, apparently, who need to believe that anyone smarter than them is too effeminate to be president. |
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They disdained Kerry's internationalism as effeminate, unpatriotic, a character flaw, and elitist. |
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It may be that effeminate boys or boys exhibiting gender role nonconformity are more likely to be pursued by older men. |
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I was very effeminate as a child and my mother was hard on me for it, which left me with scars that I'm still working through. |
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It's quite an overbearingly dominant role he plays, but Joel has this vulnerability, this slightly effeminate narcissism. |
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St. Joan of Arc was no less feminine for having led an army, St. Augustine was not effeminate for speaking about the heart. |
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It's the tale of a delicate, sheltered little prince who leaves his castle and ventures into a world with no patience for effeminate and ineffectual aristocrats. |
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For example, they considered serving in the medical support trade as effeminate. |
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I can understand a heterosexual being startled at seeing a very effeminate man. |
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A few measures would suffice, mostly revolving around truth, instead of effeminate diplomacy. |
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There were effeminate guys who were looking for more macho guys. |
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As played by Omundson, King Richard is effeminate, sincere, and ten times funnier than everyone else. |
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According to the sushi chef, the second son is sickly and perceived to be too effeminate to lead the country. |
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The curved, plumpish figures are highly effeminate, in the tradition of the late ᚢafavid court. |
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That just means we have to work harder, to compensate for all those effeminate Bishops. |
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It is easy for the militias to score points by attacking groups that are universally disliked, like effeminate men, Long notes. |
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Men who come out as gay are considered effeminate and are marginalized because they challenge these gender roles. |
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They know that he is no fisherman, but an urban and effeminate man, not yet 30, who left town to go to university and rarely comes back. |
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Canada is a rugged land, with few effeminate characters in the cast of those who developed it. |
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In other words, will boys become effeminate or will girls become tomboys? |
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This often overlaps with our internalized homophobia and misogyny, which is illustrated by the fact that the primary targets of gender policing and violence are often trans women or those who are read as effeminate men. |
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I tend to see effeminate Bishops everywhere! |
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On arriving at the scene the policeman instead of finding what he considered two effeminate men screaming at each other one was actually attacking the other with a knife. |
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Eccentric black comedy in which two gangsters on the run take refuge in an old castle on a desolate island and find their nemesis in the effeminate owner and his voluptuous wife. |
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This was Marcus, this effeminate, mincing nancyboy, picking his way fastidiously across the grass? |
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I dare say the officer class gets that extra bit of luxury, even if effeminate bat-men no longer poncily lather their backs in the bath-tub. |
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Kneller's portrait shows a handsome, even slightly effeminate young man, arrogant, perhaps petulant, but for many, the ideal beau sabreur. |
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These cocklings cocker'd we bewail too late, When that we see our off-spring gaily bent, Women manwood, and men effeminate. |
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Those who adopt the former perspective have thus criticized Lokeans as effeminate and sexually deviant. |
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None doe you like, but an effeminate Prince, Whom like a Schoole-boy you may ouer-awe. |
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Ker quizzled again at Simon's effeminate walk. But reaching no untoward conclusions. |
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There is a common misconception that gay men, for instance, are naturally effeminate and may someday wish to transsex their bodies. |
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All that gnarled, virile, rugged language was a sign of the cross-grained idiosyncrasy of the freeborn Englishman, as opposed to the insidious smoothness of the effeminate French. |
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The bad news is that a man with high testosterone is more likely to love you and leave you, so you might want to settle for Mr Nice-guy and his more effeminate features. |
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