effete
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Mostly that has meant pretending to be a Real American by riding horses, going hunting or driving around in a pick-up to prove they aren’t some effete city slicker.
From Salon • Nov. 23, 2025
“I’ll go after him for being ‘this effete knower of arcane knowledge, who knows little tidbits that no one would care about.’
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 27, 2023
He’s concerned about it, and so is the culture, which is rife with rituals meant to appease masculine anxiety about being effete, domesticated, or bloodless.
From Slate • Apr. 27, 2020
The low-budget action movies that the iconoclastic critic Manny Farber called “underground films” in an essay defiantly subtitled “a bit of male truth”— nothing effete about these flicks — were Hollywood mainstays through the 1950s.
From New York Times • Sep. 27, 2019
They were uniformly young: good-looking, effete boys and equally good-looking, loud girls.
From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart
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