EFFEMINATE in a Sentence

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1. Whoever becomes effeminate makes himself a bastard.
2. He was genteel, effeminate, graceful, robust, sluggish, ferocious.
3. Katavasov did not like him, because he was unmanly and effeminate and sickly.
4. Men who are effeminate for what ever reason do not equate to being homosexual.
5. There was something shameful, effeminate, Capuan, as he called it to himself, in his present mode of life.

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 Meanings and Examples of EFFEMINATE
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effeminate
 a.  having some characteristic of a woman; womanlike; womanly; tender
Classic Sentence:
1  There was something shameful, effeminate, Capuan, as he called it to himself, in his present mode of life.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 15
2  Katavasov did not like him, because he was unmanly and effeminate and sickly.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 8: Chapter 3
3  She noted that his nails were jagged and ill-shaped from his habit of cutting them with a pocket-knife and despising a nail-file as effeminate and urban.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
4  The race that formed the character of the Haytiens was a worn-out, effeminate one; and, of course, the subject race will be centuries in rising to anything.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
5  He was genteel, effeminate, graceful, robust, sluggish, ferocious.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—BABET, GUEULEMER, CLAQUESOUS, AND MONTPARNASS...
6  Whoever becomes effeminate makes himself a bastard.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE N...
7  It was necessary that Cyrus should find the Persians discontented with the government of the Medes, and the Medes soft and effeminate through their long peace.
The Prince By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI — CONCERNING NEW PRINCIPALITIES WHICH ARE ACQU...
Example Sentence:
1  Men who are effeminate for what ever reason do not equate to being homosexual.