How To Use Effete In A Sentence

It also protects skin from wrinkles and black spots and prevents such geriatric diseases as cerebral haemorrhage, myocardium and brain infarction by removing acid effete matters in time. North Korea Hails New ‘Anti-Ageing Super Drink’ | Impact Lab
The story might have him playing an effete easterner converted into a "real" American by the Old West, or demonstrating manly American virtues in decadent Europe or corrupt Latin America, or good-humoredly asserting American common sense in response to vogues like health faddism or pacifism, but in all these plots he was the exact same wholesome, attractive fellow he had always been. The Silent Superstar
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.
He also had a certain masculine mystique about him, unlike the intellectual, artistic and sometimes effete men who were part of her set.
It's a cosy, less effete way of nodding to the trend. Times, Sunday Times

I think it's important to read because it makes clear that he's not some effete urbanite like me: he's a sober heartland working-class American who knows whereof he speaks.
We bless and we curse effetely all the livelong day, vaguely cognizant of some long lost momentousness, too jejune in our materialism to believe in anything. WORLDMag.com
To help him, I hold his pen, and click the ballpoint in and out, so it won't go effete and lazy between clues.
He wished he could hate them all at the same time, so his hatred would be dissipated, causing him to become an effete nobody sneering at the majority's intellectual pygmyism. An East Wind Coming
German fox-hunters tended to be aristocratic, in his view effete and probably Anglophile.
Tomes have been written on how, in late 18 th-century France, an effete and ineffectual monarchy was replaced by the tyranny of the sans-culottes and the bloodlust of the Committee for Public Safety.
It is to be observed that as the cecum is only three inches in length and two and a half in diameter, and as its contents are necessarily propelled in opposition to gravity, a slight casualty will hinder or obstruct the upward movement of the pultaceous mass of the effete ingesta. Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis
To carry the analogy a little further, the Japanese would be the English of Asia - reserved, effete, cultured to the point of snobbery, at least in the face they present to outsiders.
a group of effete self-professed intellectuals
Unfortunately, National Minorities Commission is effete because the persons, who hold positions there, have personal interests above their constitutional obligations.
Yet her effete husband paraded his catamites in front of her; Piers Gaveston even flaunted the Queen's wedding jewellery on his person.
It's a cosy, less effete way of nodding to the trend. Times, Sunday Times
Today, though, Lowry is effetely lamenting the fact that McCain was booed at a highly politicized college by liberal students when McCain praised the Iraq War. Archive 2006-05-01
(with the blood-poisoning and delirium above-mentioned), sometimes after an overdose, but oftener seeming to occur spontaneously, or in the midst of physical or mental agony as great and irrelievable as men suffer in hopeful abandonment of the drug, and with a colliquative diarrhea, by which -- in a continual fiery, acrid discharge -- the system relieves itself during a final fortnight of the effete matters which have been accumulating for years. The Opium Habit
If I had my choice of roles, I'd opt for Peter Ustinov's part: Lentulus Batiatus, the slave dealer and slightly effete villain.
More on Minnesota's Angry Humorist: The New York Post's Page Six column calls him an effete egghead, but that doesn't quite capture it.
Are we so effete that we get queasier over objects and records than lives? Globe and Mail
Is it the unadorned simple man that you welcome to your bosom, or a thing of stars and garters, a patch of parchment, the minion of a throne, the lordling of twenty descents, in which each has been weaker than that before it, the hero of a scutcheon, whose glory is in his quarterings, and whose worldly wealth comes from the sweat of serfs whom the euphonism of an effete country has learned to decorate with the name of tenants? ' He Knew He Was Right
the young man spoke in effete, accented English
It might seem sorta whatevs nowadays, but in an era when the whole point of American underground rock was to define oneself against the eyeliner-effete English, it took either much focus-grouping and/or mad naiveté to dream up a whole new rock identity.
It's 1981: the world has fallen under the spell of music performed by effete blokes in frilly shirts and trowled-on make-up.
Tomes have been written on how, in late 18 th-century France, an effete and ineffectual monarchy was replaced by the tyranny of the sans-culottes and the bloodlust of the Committee for Public Safety.
Those effete brainiacs are gonna pay for their hubris.
It is a gorgeously effete, nearly 3-foot bronze sculpture of a supplicant ephebe wearing a laurel crown, his thin arms upraised.
However, in Davenant's masque, the effect is to make men effete, replicating the behaviour of the women they are trying to seduce.
Kristen Teffeteller in Tennessee is sharing the news about her quick-release connectors for hoop making. Hooping.org | Blog
Emulate experiments demonstrate good adaptability and edge recognition effeteness of the algorithm.
For myself, I care nothing for the gift of interpretation, and far less for that dreadful type of effete facility which produces a kind of hocus-pocus technical brilliancy which fuddles the eye with a trickery, and produces upon the untrained and uncritical mind a kind of unintelligent hypnotism. Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets
Even Governor La Fayette, traitorous effete Feuillant dog that he was, seemed enthusiastic about the battle ahead. He Don't Know Him
The anti-intellectualism that is popular in political and social discourse in this country when referring to the "effete European culture" that puts a high premium on learning and our instant gratification mentality that stems from our over-commercialized society discourages and disparages the kind of hard, persistent, and concentrated work that produces good learning, not just test taking. Joel Shatzky: Educating for Democracy: Dumbing Down the English Regents
It's a saltier, less effete, more cussed town. Times, Sunday Times
These hillocks of waste and effete mineral always disfigure the neighborhood of ironmongering towns, and, even after a considerable antiquity, are hardly made decent with a little grass. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862
When they became more successful, they were worried that the young men would become effete.
If there were ever an illustration of an effete ruling elite, it is this.
The public perception of me is that I am camp, effete, effeminate, gay… and I'm not.
Whatever contradictions fueled, or at this time failed to fuel my cartooning, I would have been better throwing in my lot with overt rudery and dysfunction, rather than trying to gain acceptance from the effete mob that ran the New Yorker. Kalooki Nights
Technical people too often seem distant, effete, imperious, and even pompous.
A thought: if your opponent has $100 million to portray you as an effete snob, don't go on vacation to a fancy ski resort in Idaho.
His successor was hated as an effete playboy.
They saw us with our floppy fringes and effete mannerisms and went mental.
Europe is weak and effete, a bunch of ingrates who have turned their backs on us after we bailed them out during WWII.
For myself, I care nothing for the gift of interpretation, and far less for that dreadful type of effete facility which produces a kind of hocus-pocus technical brilliancy which fuddles the eye with a trickery, and produces upon the untrained and uncritical mind a kind of unintelligent hypnotism. Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets
We want our kids to be educated but we hate elitists who seem over effetely educated.
A later script note describes the guests at Oscar Wilde's residence as ‘laughing effetely and drinking champagne.’
His reputation lies in tatters and popular history paints him as an effete Italian weakling but Bonnie Prince Charlie may yet take his proper place in the roll call of Scotland's most macho freedom fighters.
It greatly opens the pores of the skin (estimated to be twenty miles in length), and through this extensive channel depurating the system of effete matters, which, if retained by reason of non-performance of its functions, would give rise to disease of one kind or another. The Warm Springs, Madison County, Western North Carolina. Howerton & Klein, Proprietors. Hot, Warm, Tepid and Cold Baths
The founders of the dynasties are all brave and successful warriors, who are superior to the cant of a hypercivilized state of society, which covers declining vigor and marks the first phase of effeteness, and who see that as long as there are human passions they may be molded by genius to make the many serve the few and to build up an autocracy. China
The New York Post calls him an effete egghead, but that doesn't quite capture it.
Watch dated film of players pre-Laver, and the game seems so effete, but he brought in power and the use of topspin with a supreme combination of force and finesse.
Once again, an effete Arnoldian holds up the pouncet box of theory while serious forms of oppression surround us. Foucault and the Hedgerow History of Sexuality
He found such an agent in the phagocyte, which retained its ancient phylogenetic eating function, to devour effete, dead, or injured cells that violated the phagocyte's sense of organismal identity. The Impulse of Breathing
He fluctuates ambiguously between sexual identities: On the one hand, he is hyperbolically heterosexual, with a voracious appetite for women; on the other hand, he is effete and always primped.
The effete aristocrats must rely on the butler's practical skills to survive, and the balance of power shifts from master to servant.
If its people called you a liberal subversive in the pay of effete capitalist Western powers it was regarded as fair comment.
In conditions of unbelievable misery, with rain, sleet and hailstones whistling about their ears, the effete foreigners somehow put the balaclava-covered Brits to the sword.
Filmed mainly in the 1960s and 1970s they had a small cast of actors who reprised comedy stereotypes: the fat frumpy matron, the likely lad, the dolly bird, the effete homosexual etc.
My complaint about these restrictions and so many other prohibited items in many places it is effetely restricts what you are allowed to carry around on you person if you plan to do certain thing. Step back from the hairbrush or I’ll shoot « BuzzMachine
Starring Eric Idle as a director, it portrays everyone in Hollywood as either effete New Agers or venal bullies.
In a kingdom of northern India in 1856, the British plot to dethrone the ruler, whom they consider effete, and turn the land over to be ruled by the East India Company.
Cricket in Scotland may be a minority pursuit and there will always be those who see it as effetely English, as you say, and therefore to be resisted.
To listen to these media stars effetely condemn investigations as though they're something which only hateful, rabble-rousing radicals would want to pursue tells you all you need to know about how fundamentally broken the national media is. Investigations are so very rude and distasteful
It protects not unskilled workers but an effete political class who feel queasy at the thought of low-paid work. Times, Sunday Times
The 26-year-old has a reputation in the paddock for being slightly effete; his famously golden mane and privileged upbringing in Monaco - Rosberg is the son of 1982 world champion Keke Rosberg - earning him the nickname 'Britney' from his peers. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
Some think that we are too effete or somehow trying to be elite – but what if, instead of 16mo, 24mo, and 32mo we wrote sextodecimo, vigesimoquarto, and trigesimosecundo? Archive 2008-06-01
And yes, air conditioning is necessary for us effete Americans. Monterrey
Rove, you're effetely hilarious, overpaid, irrelevant and probably going to jail soon. Rove slams Obama over 'bitter' comments, flag pin
The airwaves were filled with insults about "effete" and "cowardly" Frenchmen, the phrase "cheese eating surrender monkeys" was on lips across the nation, and rich patriots were boycotting RhÃ´ne wine in the spirit of national sacrifice. Richard (RJ) Eskow: The French Connection: That Jailed Banker Raises US Issues
So when evangelism is mentioned the good news that is the subject of the evangelism is nothing more than nice liturgy, nice preaching and nice stories – and who, other than the usual coterie of effete clergy, really cares about that. Vision 2019: the Anglican Church of Canada is in serious decline « Anglican Samizdat
The security of my men and the stability of my prison was at stake, and now, I had to deal with this bleeding-heart, liberal, academic, effete dingdong who was concerned about the independent variable!
Being far happier sending back despatches from the trenches of war-torn middle-eastern countries, she is none too impressed at the idea of being forced instead to hob-nob with effete Englishmen.
I'm old enough to have signed contracts that date back to the old law that Lessig wants us to return to - an Oz-like paradise when the U.S. went its own manly way in copyright and spurned the effete conventions of the rest of the world.
_tapis_ in the circumlocution departments with the usual quantity of red tape and dillydallying of effete fogeydom and dunderheads generally. Ulysses
Cullen's creative work is often effetely comfortable and self-consciously vulnerable.
Reluctant to allow myself to be intimidated by a diminutive Frenchman who makes slightly effete music, I want to do the same back, but have just spotted that his trousers are half-undone.
A general reading of school textbooks would convince one that the Mughal rulers were all weak, effete and full of vices.
He is effete, a wimpy and spineless figure.
Optimus effetely takes this idea of a PC transmission from the pre 1900s to present day by making the switch automatic and no longer requiring a reboot. TG Daily
fundamentalism has flowered because it has concluded that liberalism is effete, ineffectual and impoverished
To spend so much for the sake of legislating against a minority doing something they never did is, to my effete southern mind, perverse.
In the long-awaited final episode, the foursome witnesses the mugging and robbery of an effete, obese man.
So quipped Gore Vidal, after being told by William F. Buckley, Jr. that if he didn't stop calling the effete reactionary a crypto-Nazi, the "queer" would get socked "in the goddamned face. Dennis Perrin: Buckley's Rancid Career
All of those effete young men flitting about in their blue waistcoats and yellow britches crying ‘woe is me’ before offing themselves? How To Be Good « Tales from the Reading Room
While he was large for a boy his age he was unable to mask his feminine voice nor his effete mannerisms and was discharged for lack of dignity.
Running hard against the elite, effete (or as Bill O'Reilly concisely puts it, the "sniveling, left-wing, wine-drinking, brie-eating") media establishment -- while simultaneously chewing on pork rinds, downing shots of Crown Royal with beer chasers, and quadrennially cozying up to soccer and hockey moms and Nascar dads -- is of course a time-honored tradition among political practitioners within both the Republican and the Democratic wings of America's ruling Property Party. Rory O'Connor: Beating the Press -- Literally
But Russians have similar traits as Iranians : Russians like poisoning a crime known as an effete crime practiced most often by women and Iranians talk tough while trying to get their dirty deeds done by others. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
A man of ample contradictions, this Tobi: American and European, staunch and effete, campily funny and core-sentimental, he is a spinning bundle of surprises, many hilarious, others touching.
In other words, only an effete man with a distinct lack of self-esteem and character would enter into such an arrangement.
The bear, with the politeness which appeared to cling to all classes of society in this effetely civilized West, rose up and sat on his haunches, facing his visitor. Peak and Prairie From a Colorado Sketch-book
The only connection art now has with creativity is through the imaginative hype which is used to sell it to a wealthy coterie of effete fops.
The effete MSM thinks acting like dicks is being confident. Matthew Yglesias » The Ever-Bolder GOP
Although many karate styles emphasize competition over the so-called effete “dancing” of “traditional” styles that “begin and end with kata,” all karate practitioners decry the sportification suspōtsuka of karate. Karate and Modernity: A Call for Comments
They regarded cigarettes as effete, dandified, even faintly foreign.
[6249] Levinus Lemnius reckons up three things which generally disturb the peace of marriage: the first is when they marry intempestive or unseasonably, as many mortal men marry precipitately and inconsiderately, when they are effete and old: the second when they marry unequally for fortunes and birth: the third, when a sick impotent person weds one that is sound, novae nuptae spes frustratur: many dislikes instantly follow. Anatomy of Melancholy
I do not think there has been one French leader who had a good word for the tea drinkers of this world: they are lumped together and seen as effete Englishmen, no doubt to the horror of the Irish; and other heavy tea drinkers.
Is it simply a reproduction of one of these Eastern nationalities, which we are so fond of alluding to as effete? Confessions and Criticisms
Effete easterners were eager to pay in order to experience vicariously the hardships and dangers of the fearless frontiersmen.
It is to be observed that as the cecum is only three inches in length and two and a half in diameter, and as its contents are necessarily propelled in opposition to gravity, a slight casualty will hinder or obstruct the upward movement of the pultaceous mass of the effete ingesta. Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis
Even Governor La Fayette, traitorous effete Feuillant dog that he was, seemed enthusiastic about the battle ahead. He Don't Know Him
You know better than anyone that such obituaries issue from effete societies.
While plenty could go wrong, and a backlash is still possible, one thing is clear: There is little danger of being labeled effete in the home of Oktoberfest and oom-pah bands. As German as … America - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
Moreover, his public image was balanced somewhere between the effete decadence of a dandy and the stilted manners of an upper-class gentleman.
He could never shake off his image as a somewhat effete elitist from America's prosperous northeast.
The security of my men and the stability of my prison was at stake, and now, I had to deal with this bleeding-heart, liberal, academic, effete dingdong who was concerned about the independent variable! Boing Boing: September 22, 2002 - September 28, 2002 Archives
The British bourgeoisie is not subaltern to an effete but tenacious aristocracy.
TAPIS in the circumlocution departments with the usual quantity of red tape and dillydallying of effete fogeydom and dunderheads generally. Ulysses
They smoked effetely, holding the cigarette between thumb and index finger, puffing the smoke out without inhaling it.
The effete middle class Oxonian dullards despise him as much for being a working class man with big ideas about himself, who insists on speaking in complete sentences and making sense, as for his politics.
Being perceived as an effete art student often made the dressing room a very uncomfortable place for me.
The aristocracy are slightly unreal and living in an effete world.
Meanwhile, every American who believes in racial equality and human dignity should sympathize with the rioters, not with the effete bigots on the Seine.
But if losing the Heineken European Cup annoyed the Catalans, then losing the final of the French championships last June to a bunch of effete Parisians made them really sore.
He renews his association with Catherine, to the dismay of her effete husband Edgar, but then elopes with Isabella, whom he maltreats.
Any good Alabama cop knows that writers are effete liberals who stay up all night doing drugs with their decadent friends.
Most memorable of the main characters was Mr Humphries, senior sales assistant in the menswear department, a camp and effete man, sharp-tongued and as light as a fairy on his feet.
As far as anyone can tell, his time in Madrid has made him effete and weak.
The aged West has grown rather effete and prefers to avoid ideological confrontation.

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