Limp-wristed

"Limp-wristed" in a Sentence (2 examples)

Some people caricature gay men as limp-wristed and speaking with a lisp.

Given the doubts about manhood in the postwar years, a rough sport like football helped to establish a hierarchy of competing masculinities that favored the sturdy athlete over his limp-wristed counterpart, the heterosexual linebacker over the homosexual fop.

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