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Example sentences for: effeminacy
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As Alan Hamilton's item in The Times [15 June 1988, 3] reminds us, the BBC guidelines of the 1940s, since abandoned, were quite specific: “There is an absolute ban upon the following: jokes about lavatories, effeminacy in men, immorality of any kind, suggestive references to honeymoon couples, chambermaids, fig leaves, ladies' underwear, lodgers and commercial travellers.”
Every expressive shape or shiny streak in a coat and suit bore the dread suggestion of effeminacy, connoting both a lack of integrity and an unbridled vanity felt to be unavoidable in women, but criminal, even thuggish, in men.
919)--and read definitions emphasizing delicacy, softness, effeminacy in men, homosexuality, and masturbation.
2) The term is usually applied to men--often implying effeminacy.