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"effete" Definitions
  1. (of a person) with manners and interests that other people consider silly, unimportant and not sincere
  2. weak; without the power that it once had
  3. (disapproving, often offensive) (of a man) behaving in a way that is regarded as weak or typical of a woman
"effete" Synonyms
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Conan Doyle's protagonist is supposed to be stylish, even effete.
In its reluctance to disobey itself, it often seemed effete.
That's got to be the height of effete, elite snobbery.
These corrupt effete meritocrats are the truly powerful ones in America.
Russian officials rant about the West's effete worldview, its duplicity and aggression.
Yet when it comes to immigration, Canada's policies are anything but effete.
Again what seems like effete claptrap contains a good deal of hard sense.
The political opposition is effete, apparently incapable of articulating an alternative to his populism.
If I lose some of the effete Republican elite, what difference does it make?
Super Saiyans fly through the air, fists clench as power rises, and effete villains quip.
The image of the cheesesteak kept popping up: not just a coward, an effete coward.
Gamboge is far too knock-kneed and effete ever to be boldly unflinching in anybody's company.
He's not bought-and-paid-for, and he doesn't conform to the effete, politically correct campaign pageantry.
An effete noble enjoys fresh fruit in a tiled courtyard near the soothing rills of a fountain.
He thinks that sticking a feather in his cap will suffice to join Britain's most effete club.
The relentless narrative: Europe is under assault by crime, Muslims, terrorism, immigration, homosexuality, political correctness and effete bureaucrats.
I couldn't imagine exchanging him for one of the effete, pretentious, loud-voiced boys in my philosophy seminars.
Above all, let's remember that compassion and rationality are not effete markers of weakness, but signs of civilization.
I had never heard the word EFFETE defined as "Worn out," but it seems to be a dictionary definition.
Soccer was weird and effete when I was a kid, the domain of preppies and future Rotary Club boosters.
Throughout his work, Mr. Harrison was intensely concerned with the natural world, though he was probably America's least effete nature writer.
" Jason Gay wrote for the Wall Street Journal that McMahon positioned it as "a gladiatorial wedgie upon an allegedly effete NFL.
But affluent Shanghai, as if eager to shed its business-obsessed, slightly effete image, has invested in three curling rinks since 2012.
"Blue-collar men think [Labour] are dreadful, sponging, effete wasters," says Simon Clarke, the Conservative MP for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland.
A comedy veteran chewing up the scenery with an effete accent, a closet full of couture, and a seemingly endless array of wigs?
Taplitz plays an artsy, effete junior high schooler whose family moves to Brooklyn, where he befriends an outgoing, athletic peer (played by Barbieri).
But in "13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi" they are prevented from doing so by an effete and clueless CIA station chief.
It made Mr. Kerry seem slightly effete, while reinforcing a central Bush critique of Mr. Kerry's candidacy: that he was a flip-flopper.
Andrews soon learns that he is on a fool's errand and sheds his starry-eyed Transcendentalism, along with other effete East Coast illusions.
Mr. Morrison has portrayed those who support greater climate action as effete snobs trying to impose their ways on an unwilling quiet majority.
In this respect you can hardly do better than Bouguereau and the values imbedded in his art — idealism, whiteness, an effete notion of taste.
He pointed out how Duke Ellington turned black history into style, and how Ellington made white American composers, by contrast, sound like effete Europeans.
Sectionalism isn't, and never has been, as simple as North versus South or an effete and domineering East against a rugged, freedom-minded West.
Ian Fried, who performs as Orion Dove, wore fluffy white boots, struck effete poses and used an enormous henchman to do his dirty work.
If much British fiction is effete and American fiction overcommercialized, Indian fiction, on the showing of Mr. Rushdie and now Mr. Ghosh, is alive.
Indeed, Mr Orban and Jaroslaw Kaczynski, Poland's de-facto leader, thrive on such polarisation, denouncing their domestic opponents as traitors, cretins or effete vegetarian cyclists.
If that's too effete for you then you can always go truly hands free with some tweaking of the Accessibility options in the System Preferences.
Most significantly, this offered a new and permanent home for the conservative Southerners who were now at odds with the increasingly effete libertine Democratic Party.
He has a droll, almost effete way of speaking, which he moderates by making fun of himself or of the whole construct of giving interviews.
They're not the hateful caricatures that some liberals expect, any more than New York liberals are the effete paper cutouts that my old friends assume.
A few minutes later, just as the pianist switched from Schubert to Haydn, an effete, penguin-suited waiter presented the sparkling riesling with a bow.
Kerry himself has been characterized by Republicans during his career as effete given his well-to-do upbringing -- which the two senators mock in their statement.
There is another sub-plot featuring an effete sniper who, for reasons unknown, wears bangles and nail polish but has the best aim in the land.
The fish in question is the ravishing Asian arowana, "the most expensive tropical fish in the world," treasured by effete connoisseurs and yakuza crime lords alike.
For decades, the GOP has bashed anyone from New York who seeks out celebrity, who cares about aesthetics, who talks with their hands, as an effete elite.
Football's proponents countered that equipment and rule changes could make the game acceptably safe, and besides, no other sport so effectively turned effete boys into robust men.
Is his sexual orientation crucial to the storyline or does Disney believe effete, camp and funny are accurate representations of one of their few openly gay characters?
Then there's the problem of those syndicate boys — especially one Feet (short for Effete) McGeegan (Arnie Burton) — who don't like Al's muscling in on their caviar empire.
The stab-in-the-back myth — it was entirely fabricated — was infused with anti-Semitic and gendered undertones: Weak, effete, decadent Jewish politicians had emasculated the German volk.
Alexis Taylor, the arch and ever-so-slightly effete Hot Chip front man, has been a strangely omnipresent figure in British music for just over a decade now.
" Michael Dukakis was called a "pansy," George H.W. Bush a "wimp" and John Kerry — in a subtle feat of gendered rhetoric — an effete "flip-flopper" who "looks French.
This makes for less of a comment on effete society, as Jordan Donica's hilariously twitty take on the character suggested, than a satire on the deracination of love.
The image being an effete substitute for genuine spatial extension, the absurdity of trying to replicate the human body in images is implied in Knight's playfully pessimistic exhibition.
A source confirmed to The Sun that Whitehall's character will be a "hugely effete, very camp and very funny" gay man, despite the fact that Whitehall himself is straight.
He can get effete snobs, he can get wealthy academics, he can get the young, and he can get the black vote, but Democrats do not win with that.
The French nobles are effete and opportunistic, and serve an unworthy monarch: at Timbers's request, the Dauphin's cape has been altered to include a hoodie with dangling white drawstrings.
Democrats also nominated George McGovern to be their standard-bearer in 20123, whose label as the effete candidate of "acid, amnesty, and abortion" stuck, and also stuck with Democrats.
The show's depiction of an effete King George III, Britain's ruler during the U.S. revolutionary war, also drew some of the biggest laughs of the night from the British crowd.
That was the year I graduated college and started to embrace other Jewish ideals: the 19th-century Freudian neurotic; the effete coastal homosexual; the communist, reptilian enemy of the state.
He was no effete aesthete; he was a working reporter, one whose job was to get there, get in close, get the powerful shot and (if all went well) get paid.
The president's recipe for political success is to appear more down-to-earth than his effete critics in the media, and so robustly transactional that his political rivals appear hypocritical by comparison.
The family's inherent callousness, like to Judy and her effete and liberal fiancé B.J. (Tim Baltz), can conjure up laughs, but sometimes it just gets so dark that it loses its comedy.
Vegetarianism, and even the idea of eating less meat, continues to languish on the dietary fringe in part because it was effectively tied by its critics to the culture of effete liberals.
Its air was already saturated with smoke, its audience highly unreceptive to a rather effete man accompanied by two geishas using electric fans to waft the smell of flowers towards their seats.
Gregory Doran's direction is clean and fluid; David Tennant offers an effete but effectively drawn Richard; and Antony Sher's Falstaff ranks among the greatest Shakespearean performances I've seen — or am ever likely to.
The blue-collar workers Sennett and Cobbs interviewed could be derisive toward effete, white-collar pencil-pushers, but they would also say things like "I didn't have what it takes" to join them.
People in cities like Prato, next to Florence in the heart of Tuscany, have come to see the left as a tribe of effete technocrats, prescribing globalization as the solution to every problem.
When it -- when he is ripping on Europeans because it&aposs all part of his war on the elites, and the effete, and the people who he says shouldn&apost be called the elites.
Chappelle's go-to voice for every gay man in his two specials—high-pitched, over-enunciated, effete—is one that most people will recognize from comedians and television shows from the 1980s and 90s.
" Richard M. Nixon appealed to the "silent majority" and the "hard hats," while his vice president, Spiro T. Agnew, issued slashing attacks on an "effete core of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.
Perhaps most challenging, prospective sales were suddenly focused on just one country, Russia, where wine was long viewed as an effete tipple and vastly inferior to the manly beverages of choice — vodka and beer.
More recently, he has dropped the illiberalism in favor of a "Christian democracy," but one sharply different from the policies of the Western European Christian and social democratic parties, whom he regards as effete.
They were kinda gay because Bush had taken up the mantle for "traditional marriage" to great effect, and also because they were effete, fruity, Birkenstock-wearing nerds, as they were conventionally described on talk radio.
As much as people love wine and as important as it is to the economy of several American states, it is still viewed by American society as somehow foreign, un-American, effete, prissy and intellectual.
Then again, contemporary American operas like Angel's Bone that touch on timely yet universal subjects, are sung in English and performed in intimate spaces like 3LD, challenge opera's reputation opera for being elitist, stuffy, and effete.
An infant when he inherits the crown, this king (Jon Norman Schneider in a lovely, understated performance) grows into a placid, passive, pious man — reasonably decent, albeit comically effete in the manner of those pampered from birth.
The early days are fraught with tension between the two, and Martin is especially curmudgeonly—but he eventually warms up to his new situation, even if he never stops teasing his effete sons for their generally pompous nerdassery.
By contrast, right-wing populism sets up a triadic antagonism between the people, the elite, and a third segment of the population that is supposedly being coddled by the political establishment: Muslims, immigrants, effete intellectuals, and so on.
His other books included "The Information Machines: Their Impact on Men and the Media" (1971), "The Effete Conspiracy and Other Crimes by the Press" (1972), and a memoir, "Double Vision: Reflections on My Heritage, Life and Profession" (1995).
Secret Service's chief antagonist, Valentine (Samuel L. Jackson), is a stylish, effete internet mogul who speaks with a lisp; he is squeamish about violence, even though he plans to perpetrate the largest act of mass murder in history.
Or about effete television personalities like Paul Lynde on Hollywood Squares or Charles Nelson Reilly on Match Game, game-show contestants whose double entendre–laden wisecracks helped them play the "nancy," a vaudeville-era term for an effeminate male jester.
There's all this discussion of how they're out of touch with the heartland, and they nominated this French-speaking, effete cosmopolitan who goes wind surfing and has this billionaire heiress wife, and there is this real sense of cultural disconnect.
The corner of Dag's mouth quirked around the toothpick as he imagined the piece framed on the wall of some cosmopolitan gallery, effete hipsters hoping to impress each other by lavishing praise or ridicule on it as prevailing social conditions demanded.
It's easy to see why Tillerson was selected: Trump harped all campaign about how businessmen are better negotiators than diplomats, whom he considers to be effete morons, and Trump's only conception of politics is as an unending series of business deals.
It explains the entire real estate section, and "Vows," and why a significant portion of the Gray Lady's op-ed page is given over to people who only exist to troll a sort of imagined effete elitist caricature of Manhattan liberalism.
But his dreams of idle fun are upset when he learns that his daughter is planning to drop out of college to support her fiancé, an effete app designer who carries himself like a Belle and Sebastian song come to life.
There were a few outliers—notably Gorgeous George, whose use of "Pomp and Circumstance" served to bludgeon the 1950s audience over the head with the idea that his character was effete, snooty, and maybe gay—but they really were outliers.
An effete, well-heeled bachelor who lives, much like the actor himself, in a superannuated efficiency apartment, Pee-wee flips pancakes and flattens grilled cheeses at the local greasy spoon in Fairville, a cozy small-town paradise in Anywhere, USA.
His use of alternative music reflected not only his interest in crate digging at record stores but also a major shift in rock music away from the icons of the '70s to comparatively effete songs by bands who got airplay on MTV.
Then a little later, when the apostles of sexual health were Victorian "muscular Christians" worried about moral deviance, the problem with Catholicism was that it was too hospitable to homosexuality — too effete, too decadent, too Oscar Wildean even before Wilde's deathbed conversion.
The whole world of Britain's Parliament — its effete codes of conduct, its arcane and stilted language, its reunions of Oxbridge school chums — seemed impossibly remote from the real, unfolding national crisis of Brexit, the process of extricating the country from the European Union.
But even so, I am outraged that her political discussion must go through an on-again, off-again process because either violent thugs control the streets or effete and weak university presidents and the City of Berkeley lack the spine to defend the First Amendment.
But that distinction is unimportant for political purposes, as the White House seeks to position Trump as a strong commander in chief to satisfy the yearnings of supporters who viewed the Obama administration's public arguments and self examinations over the use of force as effete.
Trump's message is explosive, identifying culprits in what he sees as the corrupt cabal of Washington politicians and supposedly sinister outsiders, like illegal immigrants, job-stealing Chinese firms or tough negotiators who run rings around effete U.S. officials in places like Vietnam and Japan.
It's time, once again, for everyone's favorite winter event: the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, the comically effete confab of rich people, sympathetic politicians, and "public intellectuals" or whatever inveighing on the state of the global economy and basically all of humankind.
His comments Thursday played into the enduring conceit in American politics that Paris and France epitomize effete, liberal, globalized elites that are the antithesis of the earthly, honest American values on which Trump built his appeal to the Midwestern voters who made him President.
On the other hand, we have President Obama, who is a smart and decent family man, a man who respects and honors his wife, who is thoughtful and deferential, and yet he's seen as effete and weak by 30 or 40 percent of the country.
Consider the attacks Trump has used to triumph in the primary: Cruz's father helped kill JFK; Cruz is not eligible to be president; Rubio is an effete liar who sweats too much; Kasich is a disgusting eater; Jeb Bush has low testosterone; Fiorina has an unpleasant face.
Inhabited by the veteran Canadian comedy icon Catherine O'Hara (doing her breathiest and most brilliant work), Moira is the most effete and over-the-top member of the Rose family — qualities that in any other person would be damning, but which are endlessly hilarious and endearing here.
Lead defense lawyer Robert Shapiro—played in the show by an effete John Travolta—wrote in an email that it's his "longstanding policy not to comment on the matter," while co-counsel F. Lee Bailey wished to see the entire FX series before commenting for this story.
Mr Orban's depiction of himself as the defender of Christian Europe against enemies from without (hordes of criminal migrants) and within (NGOs, effete EU bureaucrats and George Soros), wrapped up in his "illiberal democracy", may look like a challenge to European values, but it is largely window-dressing.
When Motherboard turned off its own comments section, the response to the decision by popular webcomic Penny Arcade perhaps best summed up the Trumpian point of view: that the media is full of effete liberal elites who don't want to hear what the average person has to say.
In an era of fractious disagreements and high-stakes political gridlock in Britain, the decision to add extra insurance was more evidence of the hollowing out of confidence among lawmakers that their colleagues would abide by the courtly traditions and effete codes of conduct that once dominated the chamber.
While the derision of effete liberal characters like 2013's "pajama boy" served as early rumblings of what was to come, it was the ascension of the current president, himself a walking parody of bravado, that seems to have been the catalyst for this latest, uniquely aggressive wave of toxic masculinity.
It would be nice if our European allies remembered the time United States came and rescued Europe after a series of terrible decisions it made, from a draconian Treaty of Versailles, which helped launch a madman in Germany whose behavior was coddled by Neville Chamberlain's effete "Peace for our time" absurdity.
Gregory Doran's direction is clean and fluid; David Tennant offers an effete but effectively drawn Richard; and Antony Sher's Falstaff ranks among the greatest Shakespearean performances I've seen — or am ever likely to, (Running times are approximately 3 hours each.) BAM Harvey Theater, 651 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, 23-636-4100, bam.org.
TCM notes that her 1912 Algie, the Miner, which follows an "effete city boy" who goes west to "develop some virility before he can have the hand of his girlfriend" is an emotionally complex story that could be interpreted as a gay romance as he ends up charming a tough cowboy.
The best works in the show are the most self-aware, in which Mr. Shaw depicts himself tending his artwork, pets or plants in a completely focused and self-absorbed manner — an effete maestro engulfed in "flow" while the hideous violence of the real world erupts outside his colonnaded window.
Narrated in the play by Sebastian's cousin, Catharine Holly, and surreally staged in Joseph L. Mankiewicz's film adaptation, the scene depicts a gang of "frightfully thin and dark naked children that looked like a pack of plucked birds" pursuing the effete Sebastian through the Spanish beach town of Cabeza de Lobo.
Then when Robert Gibbs reached out to me about Obama, I read Dreams From My Father, and I remembered his speech at the convention, and I thought to myself, okay, all of the arguments in the party right now are about the fact that John Kerry lost because he was this effete liberal, all the things you just said.
Gregory Doran's direction is clean and fluid; David Tennant offers an effete but effectively drawn Richard; and Antony Sher's Falstaff ranks among the greatest Shakespearean performances I've seen — or am ever likely to ("Richard II" 2 hours 55 minutes; "Henry IV, Part I" 3 hours 5 minutes; "Henry IV, Part II" 303 hours 10 minutes; "Henry V" 2 hours 55 minutes).
In Bloomberg, he would draw the ideal opponent, an effete Manhattan billionaire who, unlike Trump, has not assumed the mantle of a class traitor; who has endeavored to take everyone's guns and sodas away; who has a record of antagonizing key constituencies within the Democratic base—women and people of color—through his personal behavior, the corporate culture he cultivated, and the policies he's enacted and defended.
Iowans, seemingly overwhelmed by the zaniness, have decided to embrace it: A cartoonist has sketched out caricatures of his predicted caucus winners on live TV, rendering Mr. Sanders as a wild-haired, bucktoothed professor and Mr. Trump as an effete emperor with a oversize tumbleweed mane ("yuge," as he would say.) "This will be — probably — your hairiest caucus of all time," one of the show's anchors cracked wise to the cartoonist.

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