effeminate

Example Sentences

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When I was younger, bald men were often the butt of jokes - but taking steps to regain lost hair seemed to be viewed as effeminate and vain.

From BBC • Oct. 31, 2025

As a “very, very effeminate boy” growing up in Baltimore, Ben Appel was teased mercilessly.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

When Pesina, 32, was in grade school, they kept a low profile to avoid being bullied as a Brown, chubby gay kid with an effeminate voice.

From Washington Post • Oct. 28, 2022

How he began winning dance battles, but remained an outlier — too weird, at times too effeminate, too willing to go where others feared.

From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2022

Annoyed by this sense of effeminate intrigue I got off the platform and lost myself in the mob, crouching and slouching somewhat to do so.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin