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Meanings of too effeminate in English

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Usage of too effeminate in English
1
Some object, that such union renders the boy too effeminate and the girl too masculine.
Personal Recollections / Abridged, Chiefly in Parts Pertaining t...
2
Aubrey was declared too effeminate; Gerald too tall.
Devereux — Volume 01
3
But Trevanion had found her phraseology too mincing, too effeminate, too much that of the boudoir.
The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 08
4
You should find them too effeminate, too soft, too small, and above all not particularly religious.
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres
5
The ethereal beauty in his face became ever so slightly too effeminate, and his strength dissipated.
Soulless
6
She's too effeminate, if she is so very aristocratic-not half so handsome as 'ma belle Juive.'
Leah Mordecai: A Novel
7
And, besides-thoughhe was a little too effeminate for my taste-hereally was such a handsome young man!
Poor Miss Finch
8
The atmosphere was too effeminate to appeal to him, but he acknowledged the taste and artistic delicacy it conveyed.
The Masquerader
9
He's too soft, too effeminate, you run right over him, and you're a lot more professional than he is.
Journey
10
Nightingale, who, in many other instances, was rather too effeminate in his disposition, had a pretty strong inclination to tittle-tattle.
History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
11
Verse was too effeminate, and rhyme was severely interdicted, and to be forgiven only when it was produced by accident.
Rattlin the Reefer
12
I think the face and bearing of the Bucephalus-tamer very noble, his flesh too effeminate or painty....
Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century
13
"At all events, it is better that a man should be too hard than too effeminate."
Debit and Credit / Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag
14
"No," she said, "he is much too effeminate."
The Title Market
15
"You are too effeminate," she said, leaning against the fence, and shading her eyes with her fan, as she glanced around in the staring moonlight.
Maruja
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