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
Before his union with Mandy he had been a stranger to such effeteness.
From Scattergood Baines by Clarence Budington Kelland
It was Mr. Howells,—ever as generous in discovering new native talent as he is unflinching in reproof of the effeteness of European taste,—who first drew attention to the originality and beauty of Mr. Cawein's poetry.
From Kentucky Poems by Madison J. Cawein
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
