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sissified

adjective as in effeminate

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So he took his pistol to Backstreet, and when he heard gay men “talking in their sissified talk,” he just couldn’t take it.

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She still read bedtime stories to him, and he knew Matthew and Mark thought that was sissified.

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As payback, perhaps, he’s been among the loudest critics of the new rules to protect players from concussions, complaining that they’ve sissified the game.

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“Can’t be all sissified. Can’t have your nose in those books all the time. But a kiss every now and then don’t hurt nobody.”

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But that shouldn’t stop less sissified people from pursuing honest, useful work.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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