effeteness
Example Sentences
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Entrance to such a club as this requires a certain pallidness, an achromasia, a terrific effeteness peculiar to the very high-born undead.
From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2014
There is a shaven-headed intensity about this 2010 side that rejects the effeteness of more naturally gifted Dutch teams.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 7, 2010
The Country Life Movement is not the despairing gasp of expiring effeteness; it is an exclamation of robust joy in the possession of a life healthily adapted to our needs.
From The American Country Girl by Crow, Martha Foote
Freytag's polemic is not only the dignity of labor under present conditions, but the absolute effeteness of the old order of things that despised it.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 by Various
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 Recent Developments in European Thought by Various
