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Example sentences for: effete

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They despise the fact that you now get your news directly from Usenet groups or chat rooms, untainted by effete journalists; they fume because today's politicians speak directly to the people via Larry King Live and MTV; they are furious because kids play interactive Nintendo games instead of passively watching television cartoons.
He is joined in his crime-fighting efforts by The Shovel (William H. Macy), who wields the same, and the effete English Blue Raja (Hank Azaria), whose talent is for operatically flinging wide his cape and hurling forks, most of which end up sticking out of his companions instead of his foes.
Can you imagine the field day conservative commentators would have if the billion dollars was to be ladled out for effete artistic pleasures instead of burly manly ones?
Earlier in this century, pansy became a derogatory epithet to describe an effete male, thereby cheapening forever lines like Shelley's noble image in Adonais (verse XXXIII):
An effete northerner might challenge the court's finding that the insured's frequent use of alcohol was not material to the risk, but this was in Kentucky, where bourbon was invented and is regarded as considerably less harmful than iced tea.