effete

He knew that the effete society man would never back them up.

What wonder if the Americans call us an effete nation!

One can, even in these somewhat effete days, imagine what it must have been like.

All the same, these effete aristocrats of the old country.

The pictures are to die for, even if the theme is effete.

On the other hand, he had his cover as a effete diplomat to maintain.

I find a little effete goes a long way.

Much of the other drawing, painting and sculpture here is too effete.

She and her children should leave this effete country.

"Many of the male dancers at the time were effete.

They either didn't understand or considered the question too effete to be worthy of an answer.

The Soviets buy all the effete bourgeois products they can get their hands on.

He certainly had a low opinion of all the rest as effete degenerates.

"My mother had warned me about turning out like some of the other kids - a perfect, effete, young gentleman."

I am an effete Parisian, and bloom only in the company of ladies.

But if his batting looked effete, it was effective.

There is nothing effete about the private education at the Whitfield School.

And the music at its core isn't effete at all.

He was the manliest fellow that ever tried to pull an effete society together.

One's inclined to think that the aristocracy of Europe is played out and effete.

He wanted to turn on them and rend the flesh from their effete American faces.

And it was all too true that heroes were in short supply among this effete younger generation.

A refined search sounded somewhat effete, so I plunged ahead.

"Some garden tools are very effete but not very effective," she said.

Beethoven considered the work frivolous, and Wagner found it effete.