Meanings of almost effeminate in English

Saulez was young, very slightly built, fair-haired, and almost effeminate in appearance.

It's not just the eyes; there's an ageless, almost effeminate beauty to him.

Though his hands were large and blunt as bricks, his handshake was surprisingly soft, almost effeminate.

He is a weak-souled creature, timorous, almost effeminate.

Some of the women were beautiful; most of the men were too slight of build, almost effeminate.

Perhaps there was a certain modernity in the languid lidded gaze and the small, almost effeminate, mouth.

Lerton always dressed in the acme of fashion, running considerably to fads in clothes, appearing almost effeminate at times.

They were small, almost effeminate.

You discuss the way the state propaganda machine gives a maternal, almost effeminate, element to depictions of the North's leaders.

His dark, long face with its romantic moustache, and its almost effeminate soft eyes, was as unemotional and wearied as ever.

His eye was bright, a colour mounted beneath the pale olive of his skin, the almost effeminate beauty of his countenance had animated.

Now in Red River was a young half-breed, almost effeminate in manners, handsome in face and form, and agreeable and gentle in his address.

The difficulties of work, like the difficulties of a mathematical problem called out the athletic qualities of an otherwise shy and almost effeminate nature.

Robert Boyle, judging by contemporary portraits, was a man of delicate, almost effeminate aspect, and indeed you could almost swear that he was gay.

"Indeed I do," he said in his almost effeminate, high, pleasant voice.

"Go on with your work," he said, in his high-pitched, almost effeminate voice.