Examples of 'effete' in a sentence
Meaning of "effete"
Effete describes something or someone that is weak, overly refined, or no longer effective
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- Of substances, quantities etc: exhausted, spent, worn-out.
- Lacking strength or vitality; feeble, powerless, impotent.
- Decadent, weak through self-indulgence.
- Affected, overrefined.
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Obama is too effete and inexperienced to win.
Carcolo dismisses him as weak and effete.
Be dictated by a clique of effete east coast editors.
Being effete and being inclined.
It merely means we have become infantilized and effete.
I am also reacting against effete abstractionism.
It is effete of you to resort to disparaging the physical appearance of someone.
Ramírez was an effete snob.
An effete dandy.
If not you would have been ulideligt as weak and effete.
He has not got an ironic or effete bone in his body.
But now through using clothing and central heating we have become effete.
Fitzgerald was an effete pussy.
I started with a caged bird longing to be free but that made me sound a little effete.
A song about an effete man.
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But full acceptance is not complete even today with some considering umbrellas effete.
Thought they were effete snobs.
The effete VUX used the insult as an excuse for hostility toward humans.
His temper is just effete.
The argument that the empire became effete because of Asokan policies is also very thin.
Likewise there is an apparatus for rejecting waste effete products.
Buy Effete skirt at Smash cherry tree.
Buckley was kind of an effete guy.
Effete despotisms of the Old World.
Ramirez was an effete snob.
Many Kindred regard this term as affected and effete.
Harvey Korman brought his take on effete eccentricity to the Mad Hatter.
I had the distinct impression that other boys found Giorgio in some manner effete or.
A submissive, effete civilization will not endure.
The rise of populism is best seen as a popular revolt against effete and undemocratic governance.
And this effete count pals around with him?
Here we plainly see the scientific and material commercial supplanting the effete orthodox and classical.
Abolitionists were viewed as effete and elite, eggheads and dilettantes.
How the French became effete.
Forgive my bluntness, but an effete band of pretend soldiers.
Effete southerners, has always been in the lead on technology.
I was a helpless and effete Beta.
Could you effete political snobs please shut up and play?
A man of action … not some effete scribbler.
Back in the effete east, you could be ostracized for asking a question like that.
Lo! heretofore they were effete with luxury.
Effete figures are often presented standing in a curved posture which accentuates their well-fed waists.
He often specialised in playing cold, somewhat effete villains.
Ramírez was an effete snob! You are slime.
Doctor, our races have become tired and effete.
He 's so obsequiously effete and sycophantic.
An effete British superhero, to be precise.
That wine drinking is more effete than beer drinking?
But their effete princes are all friends of America -.
His customary role was that of a gangling and effete - and sometimes effeminate - dandy.
