effeminate
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Effeminate, bookish, a graduate of the University of Nashville at 14, William Walker was successively surgeon, lawyer, journalist before he was 29.
From Time Magazine Archive
Effeminate and dandyish, Perry Smith collected cartons of books, poems, maps and assorted memorabilia, while he dreamed of making fabulous voyages.
From Time Magazine Archive
I never heard our King was Effeminate: to be a little Uxorious personally, is a vertuous vice in Oeconomicks; but Royally, a vitious vertue in Politicks.
From The Simple Cobler of Aggawam in America by Ward, Nathaniel
Vocabulary lists containing effeminate
Romeo and Juliet
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"The Great Gatsby," Chapter 1 Vocabulary
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