effeteness

Example Sentences

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Entrance to such a club as this requires a certain pallidness, an achromasia, a terrific effeteness peculiar to the very high-born undead.

From Slate • Aug. 5, 2014

There is a shaven-headed intensity about this 2010 side that rejects the effeteness of more naturally gifted Dutch teams.

From The Guardian • Jul. 7, 2010

I cannot understand how, amid the effeteness of this city, a talent can rise which is so fresh and individual.

From The Argonauts by Curtin, Jeremiah

It was Mr. Howells,—ever as generous in discovering new native talent as he is unflinching in reproof of the effeteness of European taste,—who first drew attention to the originality and beauty of Mr. Cawein's poetry.

From Kentucky Poems by Cawein, Madison J.

The Church had created art, had cherished it for centuries; and now by the effeteness of her sons she was cast into a corner.

From The Cathedral by Huysmans, J.-K. (Joris-Karl)