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effeminate

adjective as in having female qualities

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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.

From Salon

It’s as if we couldn’t possibly glean anything meaningful from old-school comedians who were apolitical and effeminate, steppingstones for contemporary comedians, like Hannah Gadsby and Jerrod Carmichael, who are willing to wait for a room to quiet down so they can talk about difficult childhoods.

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.

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“I didn’t have great hand-eye coordination. I was lanky, awkward and clumsy with effeminate mannerisms,” he says.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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