The more masculine the women become, the more effeminate become the men.

Though fair, he was not effeminate; his countenance was regular and expressive.

With the epitaph of this hero compare that of the effeminate Sardanapalus-

So-so; an effeminate humourist,-saysthe most absurd things, and fancies them wise.

Weak and effeminate monarchs occupied the throne of Baber and Shah Jehan.

Not too handsome but compelling, a real man, not a simpering cissy.

The moment the young men got up Cissy and Elsie forgot Mildred.

Buried Cissy right next to the grave where his baby already was.

Then in just one short speech Cissy Beale showed him her heart.

Always she would remember it, spiced with the queer words Cissy used.

Since Paul can't eliminate the Fed outright, he's trying to emasculate it.

Gender questions emasculate, if her publishers will excuse the terms, criticism.

But, it is said, that the fine arts soften and emasculate the mind.

Where it should be nurturing great talent it prefers instead to emasculate it.

Do not emasculate, as that would be a waste of force.

He looked away, for that epicene tenderness of hers was too harrowing.

As for the epicene coteries of Bloomsbury, they filled him with loathing.

But this epicene state of enjoyment was not long to last.

Just who are those who enjoy the epicene on the stage?

Fancy a slender-hipped orchidaceous person, an epicene youth with Botticellian hair and a Nietzsche walk.

Don't quote that sissified Francis Chester to me.

The physical training was difficult, though according to our former Ranger it was a total sissified cakewalk.

Don't worry, you're not going to see any sissified four-cylinder Italian stallions out there that can barely crack 150mph.

There was no ranting; indeed, the rhetoric was so mild as to be almost sissified by the standards of an earlier day.

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.