effeminate
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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
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
As the effeminate, rangy Peter, 25-year-old Kodi Smit-McPhee taps into a rich vein of mystery.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 24, 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
No soft luxurious diet then Had effeminated men, No other meat, nor wine had any Than the coarse mast, or simple honey, And by the parents' care laid up Cheap berries did the children sup.
From Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II by E. K. (Edmund Kerchever) Chambers
Secondly, such a commonwealth must either be in peace, or war; if she be in peace, the few are soonest effeminated and corrupted and so obnoxious also to faction.
From The Commonwealth of Oceana by James Harrington
As the monarchs became effeminated, new powers sprung up, especially Media, which ultimately completed the ruin of Assyria, under Cyaxares.
From Ancient States and Empires by John Lord
He looms up as one of the prodigies of earth—yet sent by Providence as an avenger—an instrument of punishment on those effeminated nations, or rather dynasties, which had triumphed over human misery.
From Ancient States and Empires by John Lord
Your delicate health has always excluded you from the service; but Raoul is healthy, and it is high time to withdraw him from the effeminating effect of pampering and petting.
From Saint Michael A Romance by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner
The little parlour was delightfully warm, with a dim consciousness of sleigh-furs, hack drivers in absurd winter caps, pedestrians huddling themselves and wriggling and grunting for an effeminating background to one’s sense of shelter.
From The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia by Abraham Cahan
No doubt a green apple and the buds of trees, and all kinds of sweet or peppery roots give him that wild and strenuous virtue which enables him to resist pampering and effeminating influences.
From Confessions of Boyhood by John Albee
We are permitted no books but such as tend to the weakening and effeminating of the mind.
From Lady Mary Wortley Montague Her Life and Letters (1689-1762) by Lewis Melville
She had made herself his dearest friend without effeminating him, his constant guide without monopolizing him, and his preceptor without ceasing to be his comrade.
From Her Royal Highness Woman by Max O'Rell
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