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effeminate
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Refusing to develop the necessary people skills to get ahead because you think it's effeminate will keep you from moving ahead.
A typical if slightly effeminate adolescent Jewish boy, California version.
Depicting East Asian men as "effeminate rice eaters" was used as a justification for European colonial rule in Asia in the 1800s and for later stoking anti-immigrant sentiment in the U.S.
“I didn’t have great hand-eye coordination. I was lanky, awkward and clumsy with effeminate mannerisms,” he says.
It wasn't until President Barack Obama, whom Republicans repeatedly tried to smear as effeminate, that the U.S. finally killed the man responsible for 9/11, Osama bin Laden.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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