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Significados de effete en inglés

Marked by excessive self-indulgence and moral decay.

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        Examples for "decadent"
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        Shopping trips to New York, for example, are completely decadent and wasteful.
        The Irish Times
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        It was quite the scene, the decadent Last Days all over again.
        The Guardian
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        But Pamela knew that others saw her family as decadent, careless, unfeeling.
        The double bind
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        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
        Uso de effete en inglés
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        She scorned the suggestion that a bath-room be added; an effete idea.
        The Heart of Arethusa
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        In the effete societies it's love, in our new one it's business.
        The Custom of the Country
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        An effete snot from one of the Core planets, do you think?
        Cauldron of Ghosts
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        The effete morality of a printed book was no tie upon him.
        Bog-Myrtle and Peat / Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from th...
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        Nothing human is wholly sad, until it is effete and dying out.
        Oldport Days
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        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
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        Nothing stirred me; the machinery which had agitated and controlled me was effete.
        The Morgesons: A Novel
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        The reinforcements arrived thinking of themselves as saviors of an effete, decadent north.
        The Postman
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        The effete Egyptian Empire was hovering upon the verge of collapse.
        Eminent Victorians
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        He was a tall, studiedly effete fellow in starkly coloured New Romantic silks.
        Paths not taken
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        If he represented the type of his race, it had certainly grown effete.
        The Reflections of Ambrosine: A Novel
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        Since the war they have been effete as regards serious crime.
        Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo
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        This is regarded by many as an old-fashioned and effete theory.
        Men of the Bible; Some Lesser-Known Characters
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        Effete a través del tiempo
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