A timid man or boy considered childish or unassertive.
Pejorative slur used against effeminate boys and men.
Having unsuitable feminine qualities.
A person of weak character who lacks courage and/or moral strength.
Синонимы
Examples for "effeminate "
Examples for "effeminate "
1 The more masculine the women become, the more effeminate become the men.
2 Though fair, he was not effeminate ; his countenance was regular and expressive.
3 With the epitaph of this hero compare that of the effeminate Sardanapalus-
4 So-so; an effeminate humourist,-saysthe most absurd things, and fancies them wise.
5 Weak and effeminate monarchs occupied the throne of Baber and Shah Jehan.
1 Not too handsome but compelling, a real man, not a simpering cissy .
2 The moment the young men got up Cissy and Elsie forgot Mildred.
3 Buried Cissy right next to the grave where his baby already was.
4 Then in just one short speech Cissy Beale showed him her heart.
5 Always she would remember it, spiced with the queer words Cissy used.
1 Since Paul can't eliminate the Fed outright, he's trying to emasculate it.
2 Gender questions emasculate , if her publishers will excuse the terms, criticism.
3 But, it is said, that the fine arts soften and emasculate the mind.
4 Where it should be nurturing great talent it prefers instead to emasculate it.
5 Do not emasculate , as that would be a waste of force.
1 He looked away, for that epicene tenderness of hers was too harrowing.
2 As for the epicene coteries of Bloomsbury, they filled him with loathing.
3 But this epicene state of enjoyment was not long to last.
4 Just who are those who enjoy the epicene on the stage?
5 Fancy a slender-hipped orchidaceous person, an epicene youth with Botticellian hair and a Nietzsche walk.
1 Don't quote that sissified Francis Chester to me.
2 The physical training was difficult, though according to our former Ranger it was a total sissified cakewalk.
3 Don't worry, you're not going to see any sissified four-cylinder Italian stallions out there that can barely crack 150mph.
4 There was no ranting; indeed, the rhetoric was so mild as to be almost sissified by the standards of an earlier day.
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.
1 Hold still, you big sissy ... Look, Z, let me be honest here.
2 When he says he wants a singe, they call him a sissy .
3 Getting a restraining order-hell, that's kind of a sissy thing to do.
4 And I would have never stopped being such a sissy , would I?
5 But he's kind of sissy for a serial killer, don't you think?
6 All your life you haven't done anything but trample on sissy boys.
7 He's a kind of sissy , but Sinclair is a killer-andthen some.
8 Hemen come from our breed and only a sissy refuses to obey.
9 I don't want to be a sissy , but I'm not very strong.
10 And I didn't want to hear any sissy crying about hard work, either.
11 And I figure we need something stronger than this sissy wine Ric ordered.
12 Personally, I don't think they're sissy pajamas, I just think they were happy.
13 A sissy would not have survived the criticism he has faced.
14 It seems like sissy stuff to use them, but they help.
15 But she was a sissy , and I could not follow suit.
16 What we're doing here is removing the sissy bar from the fender struts.
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