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Significats de softness en anglès
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vaguetat The quality of being indistinct and without sharp outlines.
espanyol
pluma The trait of being effeminate (derogatory of a man)
Sinònims
Examples for "effeminacy"
Examples for "effeminacy"
1
A language of exhaustless variety; strong without ruggedness, and flexible without effeminacy.
2
Yet, in spite of all this effeminacy, the appearance of Edward IV.
3
These two Italian abbes were ne plus ultras in luxury and effeminacy.
4
Grecian refinement was no longer despised; Grecian effeminacy had not yet prevailed.
5
The ex-commercial traveller was astonished at the effeminacy engendered by provincial life.
1
Does that excuse your unmanliness, your-youmight have killed her, you know.
2
The unmanliness of his tone was so dreadful a disillusion.
3
We rightly ascribe this sort of contentment to mere unmanliness and want of spirit.
4
The feeling of unmanliness in his own position tortured him into a mood of perversity.
5
But to-day I taunted my soul with its unmanliness till it rose in rebellion against me.
1
Anointed and fragrant as an Asiatic despot, the strong Ulysses would sometimes revolt against this effeminateness.
2
To all appearances equally removed from effeminateness and brutality, he was subject, nevertheless, to accesses of both.
3
Bennington was handsome, and, but for his father's blood, the idleness of his forebears would have marked him with effeminateness.
4
"Also, there is a certain effeminateness in the way in which you speak," said Pembroke.
1
We need a new word for laddishness, for this is womanishness nowadays.
2
There was no limit to his womanishness.
3
Even in the agony of my awakening consciousness I felt the inevitable sting of shame at my weakness and womanishness.
4
Yes; you sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanishness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly.
1
Men no longer regard creased trousers, nicely tied cravats, well-chosen collars, and harmonious color combinations as signs of sissiness, snobbishness, or weak-mindedness.
2
It was fun for them, besides they felt it would be a service to knock out some of the Boston "sissiness."
Poor physical condition; being out of shape or out of condition (as from a life of ease and luxury)
Ús de softness en anglès
1
Despite the softness of her voice, the words carried to the others.
2
The rugged fortress lay swathed in the softness of the creamy light.
3
But the softness is there; everything in this twilight temple is soft.
4
The first confused hardness with progress; the second confused softness with progress.
5
I heard the softness in her voice when she mentioned your name.
6
The night was still cloaked in the grey silken softness of evening.
7
The night was cool, yet had in it the softness of May.
8
But the softness in the Christmas air did not presage a thaw.
9
But the very softness had a kind of jellyfish sting in it.
10
At the bottom of the softness there was the iron of resolution.
11
Night was falling; the damp softness of late autumn companioned him wistfully.
12
Choose Nude Gold for softness, or Plum Gold for a seasonal statement.
13
The report was the latest to show softness in U.S. economic data.
14
He noted the red brevity of her lips and their probable softness.
15
She was statue-like in her stillness, her breaths impalpable in their softness.
16
The fluency and softness of the water are thus described by Lucretius:-
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