effeminate

How To Use effeminate In A Sentence

• That which is soft and effeminate, which is calculated to excite the passions, by multitudes of ambiguous expressions, (not the less dangerous for being so cloaked) should be considered by Christians as an abuse the more deplorable, as it has even been censured and condemned by the pagans. The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi
• In other cultures he might be described as effeminate and, therefore, be an object of derision. The Kaisho
• Using polite forms and neutral pronouns with peers is considered effeminate.
• Also masculine females and feminine males - including butches and gay males considered to be ‘effeminate.’
• Spartans accused Athenians of effeminateness
• To prefer food to art, capriciousness and indulgence to "simplicity" and "contemplat [ion]," and eating to other forms of incorporation, is, of course, a female or effeminated preference (Gill 597). Wordsworth’s Balladry: Real Men Wanted
• Antisemitism, support for Nazi Germany, portrayals of their enemies as sub-men or as effeminate were all features of BUF policy and rhetoric.
• Smith spends the remainder of the film chomping on cigars with an effeminate scientist.
• For Trotsky the f-word was a sign of slavery, the sigh of the oppressed, but for Steven Berkoff it is ‘a sign of passion’, a mark of working-class resistance to an effete and effeminate middle class.
• Track down that effeminate foreigner who plagues our women with this new disease, and fouls the whole land with licentious lechery.