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Meanings of effete in English

Marked by excessive self-indulgence and moral decay.

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Examples for "decadent"
Examples for "decadent"
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Shopping trips to New York, for example, are completely decadent and wasteful.
The Irish Times
2
It was quite the scene, the decadent Last Days all over again.
The Guardian
3
But Pamela knew that others saw her family as decadent, careless, unfeeling.
The double bind
4
The same decadent financial and ownership system is in part to blame.
The Guardian
5
Possibly the papaw may be decadent in respect to morals and politics.
The Confessions of a Beachcomber
Usage of effete in English
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She scorned the suggestion that a bath-room be added; an effete idea.
The Heart of Arethusa
2
In the effete societies it's love, in our new one it's business.
The Custom of the Country
3
An effete snot from one of the Core planets, do you think?
Cauldron of Ghosts
4
The effete morality of a printed book was no tie upon him.
Bog-Myrtle and Peat / Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from th...
5
Nothing human is wholly sad, until it is effete and dying out.
Oldport Days
6
Skeptics of France consider that type effete, and unworthy of their support.
History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State o...
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You've been listening to too much of this woman's effete, antihuman intellectualism.
Broken angels
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Russia has no use for an effete ally such as England is.
The Czar's Spy: The Mystery of a Silent Love
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They considered his campaign annoying and perhaps his Carnegie Hall manner too effete.
The new yorker
10
Nothing stirred me; the machinery which had agitated and controlled me was effete.
The Morgesons: A Novel
11
The reinforcements arrived thinking of themselves as saviors of an effete, decadent north.
The Postman
12
The effete Egyptian Empire was hovering upon the verge of collapse.
Eminent Victorians
13
He was a tall, studiedly effete fellow in starkly coloured New Romantic silks.
Paths not taken
14
If he represented the type of his race, it had certainly grown effete.
The Reflections of Ambrosine: A Novel
15
Since the war they have been effete as regards serious crime.
Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo
16
This is regarded by many as an old-fashioned and effete theory.
Men of the Bible; Some Lesser-Known Characters
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