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Meanings of sissyish in English

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
      5
      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
      4
      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
      1
      Not too handsome but compelling, a real man, not a simpering cissy.
      The Irish Times
      2
      The moment the young men got up Cissy and Elsie forgot Mildred.
      Celibates
      3
      Buried Cissy right next to the grave where his baby already was.
      Second glance
      4
      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
      2
      Gender questions emasculate, if her publishers will excuse the terms, criticism.
      The Irish Times
      3
      But, it is said, that the fine arts soften and emasculate the mind.
      The Life, Studies, and Works of Benjamin West, Esq. / Composed f...
      4
      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
      2
      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
      2
      The physical training was difficult, though according to our former Ranger it was a total sissified cakewalk.
      Monster Hunter International
      3
      Don't worry, you're not going to see any sissified four-cylinder Italian stallions out there that can barely crack 150mph.
      Wired
      4
      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
      5
      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 English
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      I consider it sissyish.
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