sissified
Example Sentences
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So he took his pistol to Backstreet, and when he heard gay men “talking in their sissified talk,” he just couldn’t take it.
From Washington Post
As payback, perhaps, he’s been among the loudest critics of the new rules to protect players from concussions, complaining that they’ve sissified the game.
From New York Times
But that shouldn’t stop less sissified people from pursuing honest, useful work.
From Forbes
They thought the other faction was “running a ‘sissified’ interrogation program,” the report says.
From New York Times
Or is bikers’ suffering, when it occurs, caused by a refusal to accept what simply is, a reality that carries no real weight or evaluation outside my pampered, sissified head?
From Salon
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