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How to use effeminate in a sentence

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They adopt feminine dress, footwear donned not for wear but for show, and an affected effeminate gait.
Using polite forms and neutral pronouns with peers is considered effeminate.
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.
One of them was a skinny, young black fellow who wore spectacles and spoke with an effeminate voice.
And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not?
Smith spends the remainder of the film chomping on cigars with an effeminate scientist.
Then two old ladies started kicking up a fuss telling the boys off, making the bigger one get protective of the more effeminate one.
Nearly every Englishman of working-class origin considers it effeminate to pronounce a foreign word correctly.
What Westerners construed as effeminate is in fact virile, an assertion of perfected control and independence.
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.
He had an adolescent plumpness, a soft body, almost effeminate, with pale saggy legs.
Thus they make a great point of being hostile to gay men, especially to effeminate gay men.
Track down that effeminate foreigner who plagues our women with this new disease, and fouls the whole land with licentious lechery.
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?
He begins speaking in a high-pitched whine and uses effeminate hand gestures.
Gay males are often more effeminate, yes, but I don't know any females who lisp like that.
That would offend the mouth breathers, apparently, who need to believe that anyone smarter than them is too effeminate to be president.
They disdained Kerry's internationalism as effeminate, unpatriotic, a character flaw, and elitist.
It may be that effeminate boys or boys exhibiting gender role nonconformity are more likely to be pursued by older men.
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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Examples from Classical Literature
When she wrote to me she never employed the effeminate style of the kana, but wrote, oh!
He was too effeminate to control his journeymen, and his shop was not well ordered.
The learned Dean has been sneered at for a supposed sentimental and effeminate attachment to the textus receptus.
One notices everywhere the narrow chest, sloping shoulders and effeminate appearance of the typical Parisian rou.
The last of these was in a major scale, and was reckoned to be plaintive and effeminate.
Indeed, it is not only unchristian, but effeminate and childish, to hold such a view.
They are very idle, gay and effeminate, and I fear that they will lead you astray.
Of them all Hilperik, the King of Neustria, was the most uxorious and effeminate.
The chief gods of Sidon and Tyre have nothing luxurious or effeminate about them.
The slurs at the euphonious jingler and effeminate Alfred are in place no more.
Behind them came a ruck of Syrian youths, effeminate, vicious.
On the contrary, she seemed to be lazily effeminate in body and mind.
Neither is money the sinews of war, where the sinews of men's arms, in base and effeminate people, are failing.
But this apish monkey fashion of effeminate niceness, out upon it!
From Mans effeminate slackness it begins, Said th' Angel, who should better hold his place By wisdome, and superiour gifts receavd.
The Dorian measure was grave and severe, the Lydian soft and effeminate.
Nightingale, who, in many other instances, was rather too effeminate in his disposition, had a pretty strong inclination to tittle-tattle.
In his own effeminate way he was more handsome than ever that evening.
It was necessary that Cyrus should find the Persians discontented with the government of the Medes, and the Medes soft and effeminate through their long peace.
To even the little manliness his classical prototypes possessed, though, he can lay no claim whatever, being a listless effeminate noodle, on the shady side of forty.
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