“As it turns out, he's just a big sissy, bleating for his ma while cowering from the sandflies.”

“As it turns out, he's just a big sissy, bleating for his ma while cowering from the sandflies.”

“The sissyfication of the character in the novel showcased the gradual transformation of a tough individual into a more effeminate and submissive persona.”

“His fans insisted that his naturalism and his underplaying refuted any residual sissiness that might be associated with acting.”

“I sat down with the only female recruiter in the office, in the hopes that she'd be less inclined to perceive my general sissiness than her male counterparts.”

“It is sissiness that frightens, enrages and offends the men.”

“Tom thought singing was for sissies and kept his distance, but was gradually eased in.”

“The loudest voices are those of the blustering schoolyard bully who crudely masks his own inadequacies by calling others sissies and punks.”

“And they have concluded that one way to show that we are not in fact a party of wimps and sissies is to call out the Republicans.”