Without proper care, the aged grape vine gradually became effete and no longer bore fruit. From LearnThat.org.
I tend to be suspicious of novels which are all character; they can all too easily turn into the kind of effete literary fiction in which nothing happens. From Wordnik.com. [:Acquired Taste] Reference
Is it simply a reproduction of one of these Eastern nationalities, which we are so fond of alluding to as effete?. From Wordnik.com. [Confessions and Criticisms] Reference
I guess we know what kind of effete` trips your trigger…. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Sen. Allen On Assault Of Constituent: ‘Things Like That Happen’] Reference
I guess we know what kind of effete` trips your trigger…. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Sen. Allen On Assault Of Constituent: ‘Things Like That Happen’] Reference
He says I'm effete, only he thinks "effete" means the same thing as "feminine" but without brains. From Wordnik.com. [Spot-On: Creation] Reference
Probably everyone who reads my blog subscribes to The New Yorker since I'm that kind of effete intellectual liberal. From Wordnik.com. [David Sedaris In Fine Form] Reference
I know, I know — the term "effete" doesn't begin to describe such an approach to fishing, but as we say in New York, "What are ya gonna do?". From Wordnik.com. [The Lure of Central Park] Reference
Once again, the will of the people is overridden, and Mr.O. chose not to include the parts that would have made his argument rather "effete". by. From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews - Diary: Keith Olbermann's Special Comment: "Mr. Bush You Are A Fascist!"] Reference
By the way, who else but a snob uses the word "effete"?. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress] Reference
We must presume Tinsley means these "effete elitists" were the liberals of the era, as the words "effete" and. From Wordnik.com. [Boise Weekly] Reference
Not a vice which is shallowly called "effete" or the "product of overcivilization," but originated before man was man. From Wordnik.com. [Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise, Volume II] Reference
Not a vice which is shallowly called "effete" or the "product of over-civilization," but originated before man was man. From Wordnik.com. [Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise] Reference
In fact, most Americans first heard the word "effete" used in the late '60s by that paragon of conservative virtues Vice President Spiro Agnew. From Wordnik.com. [Boise Weekly] Reference
"effete" appearance, his absolutely gentlemanlike type, couldn't be?. From Wordnik.com. [The Finer Grain] Reference
"worn out," but today "effete" is more likely to suggest overrefinement, weakness of character, snobbery, and effeminacy. From Wordnik.com. [Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day] Reference
The reaction from Hollywood was immediate, effete and lame. From Wordnik.com. [Off To The Culture War] Reference
World which are still ruled by the effete systems of a feudal age. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.] Reference
She scorned the suggestion that a bath-room be added; an effete idea. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart of Arethusa] Reference
OCHS: Sure, Vampire Weekend is effete, but they're ultimately charming. From Wordnik.com. [Vampire Weekend's Debut Worth the Hype] Reference
Think of what the younger and more effete generation of mules is missing!. From Wordnik.com. [The Stars and Stripes The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919] Reference
Moreover, there is a fatal, effete high-mindedness in the Democrats 'method. From Wordnik.com. [Empathy For The Devil] Reference
I'm not saying that everyone who went to Ivy League schools is an effete snob. From Wordnik.com. [A 'Message' For Hollywood] Reference
It is very beautiful, with the delicate beauty of excessive culture and effete luxury. From Wordnik.com. [Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden] Reference
As an example of this depressing condition, we may mention Turkey and several of the effete. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Mathematics Being the Original Researches of a Lady Professor of Girtham College in Polemical Science, with some Account of the Social Properties of a Conic; Equations to Brain Waves; Social Forces; and the Laws of Political Motion.] Reference
But it had long since become effete, and all power had passed into the hands of the great vassals. From Wordnik.com. [The Sayings Of Confucius] Reference
When I was a year old, Emporia became too effete for my parents, and they moved to El Dorado, Kansas. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
Hopkins, with his reedy voice and effete airs, is still quite delicious in the part that won him an Oscar. From Wordnik.com. [Knock, Knock. Who's There?] Reference
I've said it before, I think you're caught up in a bunch of effete values that have nothing to do with living here. From Wordnik.com. [Relativity] Reference
Agnew (with the help of speechwriter Pat Buchanan) labeled antiwar protesters "" an effete corps of impudent snobs. ''. From Wordnik.com. [The Sultan Of The Suburbs] Reference
This was what we were coming to after having emancipated ourselves from the trammels of a dead or effete superstition!. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference
And speaking of critics, Peter O'Toole, dripping effete hauteur, delights in the role of Anton Ego, the most feared food critic in Paris. From Wordnik.com. [Pixar's Latest: C'est Winner! Say What?] Reference
Hence they are a remarkably indolent and effete community, and on landing from a ship there is seldom a porter to be seen to carry one's luggage. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
He did not stop with his mouth open, but set out undaunted to overtake the fugitive; neither was he distanced, for Jim had not stayed in the effete. From Wordnik.com. [Frontier Boys in Frisco] Reference
Critics have carped at the circus that surrounds him and drowns out the football; an effete, preening shirt-salesman who can't run and can't dribble. From Wordnik.com. [Being Beckham] Reference
This hurrying blood current not only carries nutriment to these organs, but carries away their accumulations of effete material to the excretory glands. From Wordnik.com. [The Biology, Physiology and Sociology of Reproduction Also Sexual Hygiene with Special Reference to the Male] Reference
Both the action of the kidneys and the skin would tend to carry away from the system the effete materials that have been retained as a result of the cold. From Wordnik.com. [The Biology, Physiology and Sociology of Reproduction Also Sexual Hygiene with Special Reference to the Male] Reference
Nature must have been fraudulently obstructed in the benignest arrangements she ever made for removing the effete material of a vast city's vital processes. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference
But it is what outsiderism is really all about -- and you can practice it while ingesting all the effete French wines and costly, malodorous cheeses you want. From Wordnik.com. [What Is An Outsider?] Reference
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