Adjective : effeminate luxury. From Dictionary.com.
I constantly, usually very effeminately, speak with my hands. From Wordnik.com. [Jessica Biel, Justin Long, and Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson Interview PLANET 51 – Collider.com] Reference
The rider was small, effeminately slim, and clad in worn black leather. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Company]
It was the most effeminately high-pitched voice the girls had ever heard. From Wordnik.com. [Campfire Girls at Twin Lakes The Quest of a Summer Vacation] Reference
I always wondered if he was amused or annoyed by how effeminately Williams drew him. From Wordnik.com. [Comics: Gluyas Williams – The Bleat.] Reference
Imagine being so effeminately offended by whistles and frightened of a bunch of women mimes???. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Anti-Immigrant Leader’s Bodyguard Reportedly Assaulted Mimes Who Were Blowing ‘Hateful Whistles’ At DC Rally] Reference
He was effeminately elegant and dandified and had the unhealthy pallor of a creature of the night. From Wordnik.com. [Puppet on a Chain]
Did the last of the Greeks provide themselves with tents, -- effeminately impede their progress with luggage?. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861] Reference
It was annoying to feel myself so helpless, for I never liked to see a man, either sick or well, giving in effeminately. From Wordnik.com. [Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa] Reference
Like it would be hard to compe up with a character who can make two duplicates of himself who each sing as effeminately as he does. From Wordnik.com. [FOX GEARS UP FOR ‘GOSSIP MUTANTS’] Reference
It seems pedantic to point out that stereotyping every effeminately portrayed character as homosexual is a rather ugly claim on its own. From Wordnik.com. [300, 7000, Whatever] Reference
A proper Distribution of Consonants and Vowells, that a Language may neither be effeminately soft, nor brutally rough and grating to the Ear. From Wordnik.com. [John Adams diary, June 1753 - April 1754, September 1758 - January 1759] Reference
There was nothing wrong with him: he was not especially ugly, neither thin nor fat, nor did he smell bad or drink too much or dress effeminately. From Wordnik.com. [A Place Called Freedom]
His features were small, delicate, and almost effeminately handsome; and in every lineament a want of decision and force of character was visible. From Wordnik.com. [International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art, and Science — Volume 1, No. 4, July 22, 1850] Reference
The young man was slim, and effeminately good-looking. From Wordnik.com. [The Testing of Diana Mallory] Reference
Painters that I have seen represent him too effeminately. From Wordnik.com. [Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2] Reference
He then mimed holding an imaginary cricket bat effeminately. From Wordnik.com. [Chortle News RSS] Reference
This man was, in comparison with those rugged types she knew, effeminately delicate. From Wordnik.com. [The Call of the Cumberlands] Reference
Too often haughty and wayward to others, to them he had been almost effeminately kind. From Wordnik.com. [Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3)] Reference
Neither is he the effeminately tender, or merely pathetic poet that some people imagine. From Wordnik.com. [Note Book of an English Opium-Eater] Reference
Priests and women are often classed together, but not because the priests are regarded as effeminately. From Wordnik.com. [Vanishing Roads and Other Essays] Reference
And he was horribly uncomfortable, walking there beside Alvina with his rather small and effeminately-shod feet. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Girl] Reference
The air of the chamber was heavy with the perfume of sandalwood, and all the appointments within were effeminately rich. From Wordnik.com. [Ben-Hur, a tale of the Christ] Reference
His feet were effeminately small, and were clad in buff-coloured silk stockings, and little womanish bronze-leather slippers. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman in White] Reference
Great and beneficent kings are not effeminately amiable; it were better if Massillon had preached "Be strong" than "Be tender.". From Wordnik.com. [A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.] Reference
He lived effeminately, wearing at times the dress of a woman, and spinning wool with the hand-maidens of Omphale, while the queen wore his lion's skin. From Wordnik.com. [The Age of Fable] Reference
6. A tendency to walk, talk, dress and even “think” effeminately. From Wordnik.com. [Help! My Five-Year-Old Is Gay « Gerry Canavan] Reference
Will the morale of the marines diminish when they see a president in pink jockey shorts jogging effeminately?. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-03-01] Reference
Though by nature effeminately attached to. From Wordnik.com. [The Magic Skin] Reference
6) "A tendency to walk, talk, dress and even 'think' effeminately.". From Wordnik.com. [Gene Stone: Is My Child Gay, and If So, How Do I Get Him To Beat Up Our Neighbor?] Reference
His shoulders slope effeminately. From Wordnik.com. [Shallow Soil] Reference
Sansome's effeminately handsome face darkened. From Wordnik.com. [The Gray Dawn] Reference
Pedantic verse, effeminately smooth. From Wordnik.com. [Early Theories of Translation] Reference
"Excellent," lisped the Fop effeminately. From Wordnik.com. [English Satires] Reference
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