effeminate
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Synonyms & Antonyms for effeminate
Synonyms: Adjective
effete, epicene, sissified, sissy, unmanly, womanish
Antonyms: Adjective
manlike, manly, mannish, masculine, virile
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Examples of effeminate in a Sentence
Adjective
He had a high and somewhat effeminate voice. a comedian deliberately affecting effeminate mannerismsRecent Examples on the Web: Adjective
Yet Zima, despite strong sales and nearly half of American alcohol drinkers having tried it, was met largely with ridicule: David Letterman, for instance, made a habit of parodying it as a drink for effeminate weirdos. — Rebecca Jennings, Vox, "It’s the unofficial drink of summer 2019, but the cheap, low-cal, gender-neutral canned cocktail has serious staying power.," 20 Aug. 2019 The filmic Persians are uniformly dark and effeminate. — Myke Cole, The New Republic, "The Sparta Fetish Is a Cultural Cancer," 1 Aug. 2019 Gay men, historically, have been made fun of and ridiculed for effeminate behavior or affect. — BostonGlobe.com, "Readers React: ‘Hey, dummy. Gender ain’t real!’," 20 June 2019 There were twenty students, the article said, mostly effeminate boys and butch girls who had trouble fitting in at their old schools. — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, "Coming Out, and Rising Up, in the Fifty Years After Stonewall," 28 June 2019 My features and mannerisms were all wildly effeminate. — Kelsey Castañon, refinery29.com, "I'm Latinx — & I'm Fed Up With Being Called "Exotic"," 24 May 2018 Marr explained that one of his guitar heroes was T. Rex’s Marc Bolan who was more effeminate and wore makeup. — Taylor Mims, Billboard, "Brighton's Great Escape Launches Biggest Year With New Beach Venue and The Smith's Johnny Marr," 18 May 2018 The effeminate boy with an interest in fashion gets to design the costumes. — Margaret Gray, latimes.com, "'School of Rock': When Axl Rose meets Andrew Lloyd Webber," 7 May 2018 My parents viewed my reading as somewhat effeminate, but also subversive on some level. — Amy Sutherland, BostonGlobe.com, "Admires books that ignite strong reactions," 2 May 2018Recent Examples on the Web: Noun
Bernard swaps stereotyping digs with Robin de Jesús’s (excellent) Emory, the most flamboyantly effeminate of the lot. — Ben Brantley, New York Times, "Review: Jim Parsons and Zachary Quinto Enter Sniping in ‘The Boys in the Band’," 31 May 2018 What’s scary, really, is the idea in the ether that compassion is effeminate and thereby un-American. — Diana Spechler, Harper's BAZAAR, "Anti-Vegetarianism Is Sexism in Disguise," 3 Jan. 2018 The film follows a young man named Oskar who is frequently bullied for being effeminate. — Kyle Turner, Teen Vogue, "Why Pennywise and the Babadook Were Reclaimed by the Queer Community," 31 Oct. 2017 To his father’s consternation, everything from Eddy’s manner of speaking, to his gait, to his tastes are effeminate in the eyes of the townspeople. — Samuel Metz, New Republic, "Édouard Louis’s Novel of the French Working Class," 8 June 2017 Romans used jokes and laughter to mock the physically deformed and the effeminate, among others. — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, "When Actors Mixed Politics and Comedy in Ancient Rome," 24 Apr. 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'effeminate.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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