| While he was fond of the theatre, he was wary of music as bordering on the sissyish. |
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| Born in Ohio, he had an uneven boyhood, curiously dyslexic yet smart, sissyish in team sports but very competent athletically in individual competition. |
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| Doting mothers adored the clothes, and the long flowing curls, but their sons did not like them at all, and found them uncomfortable and sissyish. |
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| Their style was meant to symbolize tough, patriotic, working-class attitudes in contrast to the supposedly sissyish, pacifist, middle-class views of the hippies. |
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| But at least two of the other portraits seem positively sissyish. |
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| Was it possible that I preferred this anemic-looking red — perilously close to a rosé, which my father had dismissed as sissyish and vulgar — to the Haut-Brion I'd tasted at my friend's dinner party? |
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