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
But in this last extract we are still three degrees away from what can be done in the line of gentility and delicate effeteness of style.
From Emerson and Other Essays by John Jay Chapman
My boy, he said, should not be brought up with the same ideas of bourgeois effeteness and love of luxury which had disgraced the nation for centuries.
From The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
The Church had created art, had cherished it for centuries; and now by the effeteness of her sons she was cast into a corner.
From The Cathedral by J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans
