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Meanings of sissyish in anglès

Having unsuitable feminine qualities.

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Examples for "sissy"
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Hold still, you big sissy... Look, Z, let me be honest here.
Monster Hunter International
2
When he says he wants a singe, they call him a sissy.
The new yorker
3
Getting a restraining order-hell, that's kind of a sissy thing to do.
Depraved
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And I would have never stopped being such a sissy, would I?
Cooking Up Murder
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But he's kind of sissy for a serial killer, don't you think?
Death Mask
1
The more masculine the women become, the more effeminate become the men.
Equality
2
Though fair, he was not effeminate; his countenance was regular and expressive.
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I.
3
With the epitaph of this hero compare that of the effeminate Sardanapalus-
Emile
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So-so; an effeminate humourist,-saysthe most absurd things, and fancies them wise.
"My Novel" — Volume 09
5
Weak and effeminate monarchs occupied the throne of Baber and Shah Jehan.
Ten Great Events in History
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Not too handsome but compelling, a real man, not a simpering cissy.
The Irish Times
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The moment the young men got up Cissy and Elsie forgot Mildred.
Celibates
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Buried Cissy right next to the grave where his baby already was.
Second glance
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Then in just one short speech Cissy Beale showed him her heart.
The Gay Cockade
5
Always she would remember it, spiced with the queer words Cissy used.
Across the Fruited Plain
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Since Paul can't eliminate the Fed outright, he's trying to emasculate it.
Reuters
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Gender questions emasculate, if her publishers will excuse the terms, criticism.
The Irish Times
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But, it is said, that the fine arts soften and emasculate the mind.
The Life, Studies, and Works of Benjamin West, Esq. / Composed f...
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Where it should be nurturing great talent it prefers instead to emasculate it.
The Irish Times
5
Do not emasculate, as that would be a waste of force.
The Doctrine and Practice of Yoga / Including the Practices and ...
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He looked away, for that epicene tenderness of hers was too harrowing.
Jude the Obscure
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As for the epicene coteries of Bloomsbury, they filled him with loathing.
The Irish Times
3
But this epicene state of enjoyment was not long to last.
Rattlin the Reefer
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Just who are those who enjoy the epicene on the stage?
Bertram Cope's Year
5
Fancy a slender-hipped orchidaceous person, an epicene youth with Botticellian hair and a Nietzsche walk.
Old Fogy: His Musical Opinions and Grotesques
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Don't quote that sissified Francis Chester to me.
Quin
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The physical training was difficult, though according to our former Ranger it was a total sissified cakewalk.
Monster Hunter International
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Don't worry, you're not going to see any sissified four-cylinder Italian stallions out there that can barely crack 150mph.
Wired
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There was no ranting; indeed, the rhetoric was so mild as to be almost sissified by the standards of an earlier day.
The new yorker
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I had seen enough on TV to know that some boys didn't think that a sissified thing like homework was a cool thing to do.
God don't like ugly
Usage of sissyish in anglès
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I consider it sissyish.
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