Adjective : an effete, overrefined society. ,an effete political force. From Dictionary.com.
I smell a kind of effeteness, a chorus of snarling, whimpering whiners who feed their egos by snarling and whimpering and little else. From Wordnik.com. [Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines] Reference
Say the word "English", and on minces a monster of effeteness with an epicene flunky. From Wordnik.com. [Caledonia; The Gospel at Colonus; Vieux Carré] Reference
Yes, he makes a number of derisive references to the liberal effeteness of other characters. From Wordnik.com. [See What The Clock Makes Us Do | ATTACKERMAN] Reference
Never was the effeteness of ancient systems, the impotence of the old idealism, more conspicuous. From Wordnik.com. [Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles] Reference
The 'young generation' has displayed an aspect of effeteness, carefully concealed beneath a shimmer of echoes. From Wordnik.com. [Karin Boye - a biographical profile - 5] Reference
It's a character role playing a 33rpm playing on a 45 weird off version of a southern gentlemen with a bad accent, icky effeteness, and weirdly subdued. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2010-05-01] Reference
"Considering the amount of Spurs fans of all genders who are smitten with VDV, I don't think accusations of effeteness are particularly bothersome," simpers Gisselle Callejas. From Wordnik.com. [Tottenham v Werder Bremen - as it happened] Reference
The second time was a repudiation of John Kerry's effeteness in the face of real issue like the war and his advancement of a rubber stamp presidency because that is what I saw in Kerry. From Wordnik.com. ["Barack Obama failed to lead, phoned it in, attacked John McCain and refused to even say if he supported the final bill."] Reference
The iconoclastic scorn of youth's idealism for the effeteness of the 'old hunkers ', as Whitman called them, has rarely rung out more sharply than in the closing stanzas of Claudel's great Palm Sunday ode. From Wordnik.com. [Recent Developments in European Thought] Reference
When will the pundits start talking about this constant dissembling as an overarching character trait, in the same manner that we heard endlessly about alleged Dem flaws such as Al Gore's serial exaggerating, John Kerry's effeteness and obfuscation, John Edwards 'phoniness, and Hillary's penchant for political calculation?. From Wordnik.com. [Horses Mouth November 2, 2007 8:34 AM] Reference
It is indeed difficult to avoid noticing the physical similarity among so many of our right-wing warriors who mock the alleged effeteness and lack of masculinity of their political opponents and who engage in chest-beating war dances and emphasize the need for manly courage and resolve, in the form of more wars fought by others, brutal interrogation techniques and the like. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Stay Classy, Conservative Blogosphere] Reference
The effeteness of the Mother Country is about to be put to the proof. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, May 6, 1914] Reference
Before his union with Mandy he had been a stranger to such effeteness. From Wordnik.com. [Scattergood Baines] Reference
In these things, he said, lay the greatness of America and the effeteness of England. From Wordnik.com. [American Notes] Reference
Social Work constitutes to the infidel's sneers at Christianity and the assertion of its effeteness. From Wordnik.com. [The Authoritative Life of General William Booth] Reference
I cannot understand how, amid the effeteness of this city, a talent can rise which is so fresh and individual. From Wordnik.com. [The Argonauts] Reference
My boy, he said, should not be brought up with the same ideas of bourgeois effeteness and love of luxury which had disgraced the nation for centuries. From Wordnik.com. [The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel] Reference
Lombardic provinces, with the half degree of persuasive earnestness which makes a Government lax in its vigilance, and leaves it simply open to the charge of effeteness. From Wordnik.com. [Vittoria — Complete] Reference
There is another young lady here, who is less abnormally developed than the one I have just described, but who yet bears the stamp of this peculiar combination of incompleteness and effeteness. From Wordnik.com. [A Bundle of Letters] Reference
At that period Austria was simulating benevolence in her Lombardic provinces, with the half degree of persuasive earnestness which makes a Government lax in its vigilance, and leaves it simply open to the charge of effeteness. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference
There was enough of Greek in them to keep them polished; enough of Macedonian to keep them essentially barbarous; they sopped up some of the effeteness of the civilizations they had displaced, Egyptian and Asiatic; but the souls of those old civilizations remained aloof. From Wordnik.com. [The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19] Reference
Popular fancy takes kindly to rough but honest westerners who have begun life in flannel shirts, who have struck gold and come to New York with a fortune but despising effeteness; such a one, tanned by the mountain sun, embarrassed in raiment supplied by a Fifth Avenue tailor, takes a table one evening at Hawtrey's and of course falls desperately in love. From Wordnik.com. [Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill] Reference
It is a general belief with most people that the old time was the best time; that the seasons were more genial formerly; that provisions were cheaper and more abundant; that men were taller, and stouter, and healthier; that, in a word, everything was better in the days of yore than it is now, and that degeneracy and effeteness are the prevailing characteristics of our age. From Wordnik.com. [The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock] Reference
Joseph J Firebaugh in his "Vocabulary of Time Magazine" says "Term has been used along with" Parlor Pink "for people with Left sympathies with a special implication of" effeteness ". From Wordnik.com. [Pak Tea House] Reference
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