effeminacy
Example Sentences
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Dandyism’s persistent associations with criminality, effeminacy and homosexuality would achieve notoriety in Oscar Wilde’s 1895 trials.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 15, 2026
Warhol also embraced camp as a personal style, performing a theatrical effeminacy that equated to a strategic queerness designed to discomfit those among his contemporaries who held him to be "too swish."
From Salon • Feb. 19, 2022
With Abe and his effeminacy, Chabon is all patience.
From Slate • May 17, 2018
And what is wrong with effeminacy to begin with?
From The Guardian • May 7, 2016
His long, glossy hair was rumpled, and even at a distance The Phantom could see that his features, so regularly molded as to give an impression of effeminacy, were intensely pale.
From The Gray Phantom by Landon, Herman
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
