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). Wordsworths 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.
He cannot, as it were, imagine his manly project without an enemy, and oddly enough, the woman reader stands in for this enemy — literally, the effeminated reader rather than the female one — instead of standing in for the ennabling reader, she who urges the knight onward or who needs to be rescued by his valiant acts. Wordsworths Balladry: Real Men Wanted
I don't think cooking is effeminate - I'd question the sexual orientation of anyone who said that!
That effeminate creature in the 7-11 you scorn is suffering the consequences of other mens sins, you only lower yourself if you abuse that person because of your own false perceptions. Tools and Pocketknives
He was very young and handsome in a slightly effeminate way.
Contrary to his effeminate appearance, he said without reserve during interview.
Bennington was handsome, and, but for his father's blood, the idleness of his forebears would have marked him with effeminateness. Half a Rogue
He constantly pondered upon the possibilities through which his friend might be freed from the shackles that bound him to the effeminate serfdom of idleness; but the magic that could unrivet those fetters had not yet been revealed. Fairy Fingers A Novel
In the full august assembly, Nero discovered enthroned, not unmajestic in deportment, yet effeminately chapleted, and holding a lyre: suppose him just returned from Elis, a pancratist, the world's acknowledged champion. An Author's Mind : The Book of Title-pages
Calvinist missionaries dealt with a culture that had aikane by calling christianist and capitalist culture "manly," Hawaiian society "feudal," and feudalism "effeminate. Archive 2006-11-01
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Their faces of men and hair like women doubtless signify their boldness on the one hand and their effeminateness on the other. The Revelation Explained
The effeminate star has made a name for himself over the last couple of years and is considered the epitome of "kawaii" by Japanese women.
He and his art are described as “nerveless and effeminate”.
In the effeminate Antinous, an alto-relievo of whitest marble, we admire the prototype of that arrow-stricken youth, the comely St Sebastian. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.
Anointed and fragrant as an Asiatic despot, the strong Ulysses would sometimes revolt against this effeminateness. Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel
He puts the rudest remarks Sir Percival can make on his effeminate tastes and amusements quietly away from him in that manner — always calling the baronet by his The Woman in White
Ammonius began to jeer me for choosing a rose chaplet before a laurel, saying that those made of flowers were effeminate, and fitted toyish girls and women more than grave philosophers and men of music. Essays and Miscellanies
He was, however, effeminately nice in the care of his person: the hair on his body he plucked out by the roots; and because he was somewhat bald, he wore a kind of peruke, so exactly fitted to his head, that nobody could have known it for such. De vita Caesarum
In the most virulent homophobic works gays are effeminate, sarcastic males who lead meaningless lives; they disrupt families, are misogynists, and are marginal to black communities and institutions.
He survives by using his kick-boxing skills, defending himself and his haphazard household, a family composed of an effeminate hustler named Taboo, a blowzy hooker called Laurita, and her baby of indeterminate origin.
Or this diplomat Carl Jacob Burkhard put it in a similar way: He found him mostly effeminated. The Outing Of Adolf
For those of you who don't know the etymology of the phrase, pansy is a derogatory term for an effeminate homosexual man. Easley on Clinton: She makes Rocky look like a 'pansy'
For instance, the King James Version uses the term effeminate which is an offensive term to describe a man whose behavior, appearance or speech is considered to be more similar to that of females. Undefined
He's got a very effeminate manner/voice.
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.
He's got a very effeminate manner/voice.
We are not demoralized or effeminated by the luxury and abundance which are ours, but elevated rather, and strengthened by the very magnificence and opulence of our circumstances, and by the perfect freedom, under healthful restraint, which we enjoy through the community's strong, vigorous, moral and intellectual tone. The Dominion in 1983
With reason, therefore, everybody admired Cato, when they saw others sink under labors, and grow effeminate by pleasures; and yet beheld him unconquered by either, and that not only when he was young and desirous of honor, but also when old and greyheaded, after a consulship and triumph; like some famous victor in the games, persevering in his exercise and maintaining his character to the very last. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
The effeminate males in view were youths, not children.
This reflects not only homophobia but also sexism, since gay men are stereotyped as effeminate, too much like women.
At face value, the typical metrosexual is a straight man who has homosexual or effeminate characteristics.
Just began, 3 suspects rob the vanity of effeminate woman technically, procurable hind sneak away.
But the male assumes his influence to be normal, human, and the female influence as wholly a matter of sex; therefore, where women teach boys, the boys become "effeminate" -- a grievous fall. The Man-Made World; or, Our Androcentric Culture
Martin drank on silently, biting out his orders and invitations and awing the barkeeper, an effeminate country youngster with watery blue eyes and hair parted in the middle. Chapter 17
When I was growing up in the Caribbean, British sitcoms were a staple on television and one of my favorites was Are You being Served? starring John Inman as the uber-effeminate "poofter" Mr. Humphries. Archive 2007-07-01
There were effeminate guys who were looking for more macho guys.
Thus they make a great point of being hostile to gay men, especially to effeminate gay men.
If one wanted to abstract a general rule from the affair it might well be ‘to make a building look effeminate, trashy and like something out of Disneyworld, be sure to add banded pink stripes’.
Because one look at how the man plays the game is sufficient to destroy that old myth that gay men are uniformly effeminate, sissyish and, above all, instantly recognisable. Independent.ie - Frontpage RSS Feed
And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not?
The public perception of me is that I am camp, effete, effeminate, gay… and I'm not.
Obviously it has to do with conservative contempt for what they perceive as refined culture, and the arts (artists being after all mostly “radicals” and “revolutionaries” as the old stereotype goes), the boogeyman of the French Revolution and revolutionary leftism is in there somewhere, the conservative sense of the French as ‘effeminate’, & too latin, is also in there. Matthew Yglesias » The Brie Factor
They were being effeminated and corrupted -- that is to say, absorbed in the foul, sickly enveloping forms. A Voyage to Arcturus
He had extremely effeminate hands and gestures.
You may all see him for yourselves: an effeminate, half-witted creature, reeking of strong liquor from the early hours of the day.
He contemplated his picture — he shrunk from it, but he could change its deformity only by an effort too nobly daring for a mind already effeminated by vice. The Romance of the Forest
Gay males are often more effeminate, yes, but I don't know any females who lisp like that.
Nicholas, in his own effeminately camp style, made the waitress describe the contents of several of the desserts, and only chose something after much cogitation.
Her perfect simplicity of motive and abandonment of selfish, vain effeminateness made her the delight of the great men she met. Memories of Hawthorne
Then two old ladies started kicking up a fuss telling the boys off, making the bigger one get protective of the more effeminate one.
She had discovered that his greatness was at best a kind of lap-dog or tame cat distinction; that he was better known as the caressed and petted adviser of patrician dowagers and effeminate old gentlemen, of fashionable beauties and hysterical matrons, than as one of the lights of his profession. The Golden Calf
He is artsy, creative, colourful and ultimately effeminate.
Nearly every Englishman of working-class origin considers it effeminate to pronounce a foreign word correctly.
First, Chinese males became effeminate fops, who dressed in motley silk costumes and sported ridiculously long fingernails. The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876
We know, as I observed in my last post, that her primary strategy has been to portray him as an effeminate, elitist, and fragile ectomorph who will be weak in the face of aggression, and who will be readily done in by America's more burly antagonists. Stephen Ducat: Death Wish II: What Hillary Was Aiming at With Her Two Assassination "Gaffes"
He was the typical "shirker" and "loafer," while other men worked; the parasite bred from the sweat of the poor; the soft, effeminate creature who had never faced the facts of life and never would. England's Effort: Letters to an American Friend
Dalgliesh wondered what aberrant fancy had conceived that effeminate angel with his curdle of yellow hair under the plumed helmet or the sword embellished with glutinous lozenges in ruby, bright blue and orange with which he was ineffectively barring the two delinquents from an apple orchard Eden. She Closed Her Eyes
The adjectives and derivatives based on woman's distinctions are alien and derogatory when applied to human affairs; "effeminate" -- too female, connotes contempt, but has no masculine analogue; whereas "emasculate" -- not enough male, is a term of reproach, and has no feminine analogue. The Man-Made World; or, Our Androcentric Culture
What Westerners construed as effeminate is in fact virile, an assertion of perfected control and independence.
Milton, from the extreme elegance of his person and his mind, rather than from any effeminateness of character, was called while in the University, "the lady of Christ's College. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 2 Great Britain and Ireland, Part 2
Another aspect of Caravaggio's past persists in ‘The Young St John’ in the Borghese Gallery: a petulant urchin, speckled with sun-rash, and with an effeminate moue on his face as a ram curves and stretches against his pliant body.
He should not be effeminate, indeed preferably normal: I did not exclude education, but did not want it, I could supply all that myself and in the loved one it always seemed to get in the way; he should admit me but no one else; he should be physically attractive to me and younger than myself — the younger the better, as closer to innocence; finally he should be on the small side, lusty, circumcised, physically healthy and clean: no phimosis, halitosis, bromidrosis. Papa Was a Wise Old Sly-Boots
They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive. Local authors
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?
The officer, always thinly clad (both through the state of his wardrobe and his dread of effeminate comfort), settled his bony shoulders against the rough stonework, and his heels upon a groyne, and gave his subordinate a nod, which meant, “Make no fuss, but out with it.” Mary Anerley
Here, in this distant land, and this secluded section, they are able to develope without contact with that effeminate degeneracies of the outside world, or the dangerous tendencies of modern civilization. Reminiscences and Memoirs of North Carolina and Eminent North Carolinians
Anthony had more of Michael's ruggedness whereas Geoffrey had softer features, almost effeminate.
His complexion might in itself be called effeminate, its bloom was so fresh and delicate; but there was so much of boldness and energy in the play of his countenance, the hardy outline of the lips, and the open breadth of the forehead, that "effeminate" was an epithet no one ever assigned to his aspect. The Parisians — Complete
There were effeminate guys who were looking for more macho guys.
Aristophanes essayed the task both by criticism and example -- by criticism, directing the shafts of his ridicule at over-emphasis and over-subtlety, by example, writing himself in inimitable perfection the beautiful Attic dialect, which was being enervated and effeminated and spoiled in the hands of his opponents. The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1
I think the idea of a vampire is attractive not because of their effeminate qualities but because of their masculine qualities. Vampire popularity blamed on young women wanting to have sex with gay men. Discuss! | EW.com
I've been told it's one of Derek's more effeminate moments.
They disdained Kerry's internationalism as effeminate, unpatriotic, a character flaw, and elitist.
Why “masculine” tends to be a term of praise and “feminine” (or worse, effeminate) pejorative is another matter. By the Letters : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
A gentle, almost effeminate scholar, Minh Mang reinforced the Confucian administration he had inherited from his father.
It's the "unbecoming" part that leads me to associate the word effeminate with a degree of campiness that I don't believe applies to Renly and Loras. Meet GRRM and (maybe) cast and crew
Give me, with your favour, leave to say, 'twas you first lost the good grace of speaking; for with light idle gingles of words to make sport ye have brought it to this, That the substance of oratory is become effeminate and sunk. The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter
A black or malign disposition, an effeminate disposition; an hard inexorable disposition, a wild inhuman disposition, a sheepish disposition, a childish disposition; a blockish, a false, a scurril, a fraudulent, a tyrannical: what then? Meditations
V. ii.310 (340,7) you make a wanton of me] A _wanton_ was, a man feeble and effeminate. Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies
He had an adolescent plumpness, a soft body, almost effeminate, with pale saggy legs.
One, who in dalliance affects the male, no female is, And he who is effeminate of step's no male, ywis. The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV
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.
Needless to say, no one around me was like me, the puggy, effeminate, brown boy living in the South -- and that was lonely. Zach Stafford: The Faces Missing from 'The Gay Rights Movement'
It may be that effeminate boys or boys exhibiting gender role nonconformity are more likely to be pursued by older men.
A furtive homosexual, he pocked his fiction with scathing descriptions of effeminate men.
So that since the excellencies of it may be so easily and so justly confirmed, and the low-creeping objections so soon trodden down: it not being an art of lies, but of true doctrine; not of effeminateness, but of notable stirring of courage; not of abusing mans wit, but of strengthening mans wit; not banished, but honored by Plato; let us rather plant more laurels for to engarland our poets headswhich honor of being laureate, as besides them only triumphant captains were, is a sufficient authority to show the price they ought to be held inthan suffer the ill-savored breath of such wrong speakers once to blow upon the clear springs of poesy. The Defense of Poesy
The other cowboys, a robust crowd, found his behavior mulish and told him, "You better forget that Indian gal and do yourself some good in Cheyenne, " but the idea repelled him, and they began to think he might be effeminate. Centennial
His manner was courteously masculine with no trace of the eunuchoid or effeminate; but in our hundreds of private hours together, Mac never hinted at a sexual propensity of his own, in any direction. CLEAR PICTURES
If men engage in homosexual act or a homosexual relationship and they are perceived as being effeminate, that is when they are more likely to be the victims of persecution. CNN Transcript Sep 27, 2007
I wonder how much the boys' recourse to "prescribed" externalizations of genuine depression-- particularly boys who have a real hangup about being "effeminate"-- winds up in the form of almost exclusively emotionally abusive relationships. Gender: A Question of Diagnosis?
One of them was a skinny, young black fellow who wore spectacles and spoke with an effeminate voice.
This may place the individual who prefers his or her same gender as an intermediate ‘third sex’, or situate the male homosexual as effeminate and the female homosexual as masculinized.
Although working-class and middle-class males generally regarded excessive grieving as effeminate, there is little to suggest that newsboys held back tears or felt embarrassed at expressing their sorrow.
The scene made more comprehensible the preconquest customs of the land, as the antithesis of the drunken and excited Indian to the almost effeminate fear of the same being sober makes more clear that inexplicable piece of romance, the Conquest of Mexico. Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond
Dobomir Dimitrov, a Landmark Hotel employee who is openly gay, described the 34-year-old Saudi royal as effeminate and said the two men, who were sharing a room, had "color-coded" their clothing. Saudi Prince Allegedly Killed Servant After Gay Sex Attack At London Hotel
I want my superhero's to be strong, tough, a bit of a ladies man, not an effeminate, crying, emotionally laded little puke like Toby McGuire. Archive 2007-05-01
Tall Sikhs, whose hair and beards have never known scissors or razor, and who stride along with a swagger and high-caste dignity; effeminate Cingalese; Hindoo clerks, smirking, conceited and dandified too, according to their own notions; almost naked palkee-bearers, who nevertheless, if there is the slightest shower, put up an umbrella to protect their shaven crowns; up-country girls with rings in their noses and rings on their toes; little Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873
Our entertainments have become effeminate and puritanical in their perversely and contradictorily sexed-up way. Archive 2010-03-01
They adopt feminine dress, footwear donned not for wear but for show, and an affected effeminate gait.
He begins speaking in a high-pitched whine and uses effeminate hand gestures.
By making ‘gay’ equate with effeminate, society has done a good job of creating a minority closed category which forces people to take sides.
He is an effeminate country youngster with watery blue eyes and hair parted in the middle.
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.
Martin drank on silently, biting out his orders and invitations and awing the barkeeper, an effeminate country youngster with watery blue eyes and hair parted in the middle. Chapter 17
He noted a soft, effeminate soldier across the way.

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