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Example sentences for: effeminate

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' In sermons, novels, political broadsheets, moralising treatises and popular engravings, the French were portrayed as mangy, corrupt, effeminate, ignorant, indolent, immoral and lecherous, as well as vain and superficial."
Your gentleman friend could be straight or gay, but he is definitely effeminate.
Stojko's problem: He lacks artistry because he's afraid of seeming effeminate.
She knows he's running guns for abolitionists (blond, effeminate, and brave, he's the Northern counterpart to Gone With the Wind 's Ashley), but she's totally unprepared for the hardscrabble life she's chosen.
Just in case you feel too sorry for him, however, Barker is careful to include a homophobic monologue in which Michael complains about young women who waste their lives hanging out with effeminate males.