Effeminate

//ɪˈfɛmɪnət//

"Effeminate" in a Sentence (15 examples)

Sato's high voice and mannerisms are pretty effeminate.

Everybody says that he's an effeminate guy.

Therefore, putting on one side imaginary things concerning a prince, and discussing those which are real, I say that all men when they are spoken of, and chiefly princes for being more highly placed, are remarkable for some of those qualities which bring them either blame or praise; and thus it is that one is reputed liberal, another miserly, using a Tuscan term (because an avaricious person in our language is still he who desires to possess by robbery, whilst we call one miserly who deprives himself too much of the use of his own); one is reputed generous, one rapacious; one cruel, one compassionate; one faithless, another faithful; one effeminate and cowardly, another bold and brave; one affable, another haughty; one lascivious, another chaste; one sincere, another cunning; one hard, another easy; one grave, another frivolous; one religious, another unbelieving, and the like.

Does Ziri sound effeminate?

Is Ziri an effeminate name?

Ziri acted like an effeminate man.

My Filipino neighbour, who liked eating cherries, took Japanese in high school, whilst I waited until university. He was a strange character, admittedly effeminate by choice.

Dance had disciplined my body in particular ways and led me to be named by others as “effeminate".

An effeminate and unmanly foppery.

The Comte d'Artois had neither the dignified nor the manly air of his brother—he rather appeared like a pretty-looking girl, so effeminate was he and fair.

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Gentle, kind, effeminate remorse.

the studie of sciences doth more weaken and effeminate mens minds, than corroborate and adapt them to warre.

It will not corrupt or effeminate their [children's] minds.

I mean the represenstation of gay men on The Simpsons is getting more one-dimensional. For several years Smithers was quite masculine, yet the writers have effeminated him gradually (collecting Barbies, for instance), now he's rollerblading down the street with rainbow hotpants on?

The effeminates are males with obviously recognizable traits and mannerisms; […]

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