sissified

Example Sentences

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

From Forbes

They thought the other faction was “running a ‘sissified’ interrogation program,” the report says.

From New York Times

Just like sissified Austin Democrats to whine about a dead coyote, right?

From Salon

A Democratic consultant who spoke with the Dallas Morning News echoed this line of attack, worrying that Rick Perry would "try to paint Bill White as a sissified urbanite."

From Salon

"I have never quite got over the fact that I thought, and I'm afraid I still do think, that 'acting' for a man — a really proper man — is sissified and faintly ridiculous."

From Time