effeminate
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When I was younger, bald men were often the butt of jokes - but taking steps to regain lost hair seemed to be viewed as effeminate and vain.
From BBC • Oct. 31, 2025
As a “very, very effeminate boy” growing up in Baltimore, Ben Appel was teased mercilessly.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025
“I didn’t have great hand-eye coordination. I was lanky, awkward and clumsy with effeminate mannerisms,” he says.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 20, 2023
Nationalistic right-wingers targeted such “painted and powdered” young men for persecution, but in “Brideshead Revisited” fashion, the effeminate met the parodic in the defiant aesthetes’ pursuits.
From Washington Post • Dec. 1, 2022
Annoyed by this sense of effeminate intrigue I got off the platform and lost myself in the mob, crouching and slouching somewhat to do so.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
Vocabulary lists containing effeminate
Romeo and Juliet
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