(a.) Having some characteristic of a woman, as delicacy, luxuriousness, etc.; soft or delicate to an unmanly degree; womanish; weak.
(a.) Womanlike; womanly; tender; -- in a good sense.
(v. t.) To make womanish; to make soft and delicate; to weaken.
(v. i.) To grow womanish or weak.
Example Sentences:
(1) These bribes and rewards, often feminine or effeminate ornaments, not only beautify the already gorgeous bodies of young men, but also label and augment their value and their power.
(2) Growing up on the Norris Green council estate in Liverpool, Duggan, who is now 41, was bullied at home and at school – "I was probably just a bit too sensitive and effeminate for my own good" – and he found solace in the Smiths, particularly in their first couple of albums, when he was 14 or 15.
(3) Were Brian Blessed to complain angrily and defensively enough that he "didn't come across as effeminate", he would gradually start to seem girly.
(4) One result of the sharp dichotomization of male and female gender roles is the widely held belief that effeminate males generally prefer to play the female role rather than the male.
(5) When the talkies first came in, leading men with effeminate voices lost their careers.
(6) In addition, we have found significantly increased plasma follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) and LH levels associated with decreased plasma free testosterone levels in homosexual men, but only in effeminate homosexuals.
(7) The majority mixed with effeminate boys, admired a senior person in school and about a third had a physical relationship with this person.
(8) Effeminacy and homosexuality are also linked by the belief that as a result of this role preference effeminate males are sexually interested only in masculine males with whom they play the passive sex role.
(9) And boys don't want to hang around you coz you're effeminate."
(10) Fellow members of the Lower Third could not help noticing David’s flamboyant, even effeminate performing style.
(11) It must have been the worst fight ever: two effeminate theatrical blobs trying not to get hurt.
(12) Eddy Bellegueule (Louis’s real name, which means “beautiful face” in French) is an effeminate child; as a “faggot”, “queer”, “poof”, as he is regularly reminded, he is even worse than an “Arab”, “Jew” or “black”.
(13) Speaking earlier at the conference, Gambaccini said Moyles "encouraged bullying" and caused "human suffering" after a show in which he changed the lyrics to two Will Young songs and sang them in an effeminate, high-pitched voice.
(14) There were eunuchs (castrated men) and mukhannathun (effeminate men) to whom the rules of gender segregation did not apply: they were allowed access to the women’s quarters, presumably because there was thought to be no likelihood of sexual misbehaviour.
(15) From Kenneth Williams to Tom Allen, there has always been a market for effeminate stylings allied to a waspish, holier-than-thou gentility.
(16) In all fairness, no one can speak of transsexual or transvestite children as has been done in the past, but only of feminine or effeminate boys and tomboy girls.
(17) In the course of a long-term study of 55 boys with early effeminate (cross-gender) behavior an effort was also made to ascertain the presence of sexual deviance in their parents, siblings, uncles, and aunts.
(18) A relatively advanced age and secondary trans-sexualism (transvestites and effeminate homosexuals) are risk factors for poor prognosis in those requesting sex reassignment.
(19) It’s a film which playfully toyed with the perceived homoeroticism of the male-warrior culture: depicting the Spartans as brave, warlike and noble, but the Persians as in thrall to an effeminate and contemptible king: Xerxes.
(20) Hence that word "squeaky", suggestive of the most paltry and effeminate of colonic disorders, a million miles from Sir Alex, with his cast-iron constitution, his five portions of fruit a day, his regular and decisive daily movements.
Nancy
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) On December 14, 1990, the gastrostomy tube which had kept Nancy alive since the accident was removed and she died 11 days later.
(2) Earlier this month, a private funeral took place for Nancy Lanza, the gunman's mother and the first of his 27 victims.
(3) Nancy Davis was a middle-ranking film actor in her 20s when she received her initial introduction to Reagan, having already told a friend that he was top of her list of Hollywood’s eligible bachelors.
(4) The Democratic committee leader Diane Feinstein joined the House minority leader, Nancy Pelosi, in defending the much-needed infrastructure project as a “good deal for taxpayers”.
(5) Nancy Curtin, the chief investment officer of Close Brothers Asset Management said: "The US economy didn't just grind to a halt in the first quarter – it hit reverse as the polar vortex took its toll.
(6) Nancy Reagan was totally devoted to President Reagan, and we take comfort that they will be reunited once more,” said Barbara Bush, wife of Reagan’s vice-president and successor, in a statement.
(7) The result is worthy of comparison to the winsome Americana that Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra put out in the late 60s.
(8) This paper describes the food behavior of 495 adolescents (15-19 years old) sample living in Nancy (France).
(9) Fewer candidates are at present generally available for the role of NANCI transmitter(s), with VIP and ATP being leading contenders.
(10) But the matriarch of women who toke is Nancy Botwin ( Mary-Louise Parker ) in the long-running TV series Weeds .
(11) The speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, said a Tobin tax was "not a priority" but she did not rule it out, saying simply that the US could not act single-handedly: "We couldn't do it alone, we'd have to do it as an international initiative."
(12) There was no way I could have known things would play out like they did.” There was a time, Nancy admits, when living at Foxcatcher was: “wonderful, beautiful.
(13) Secretory ameloblasts synthesize the organic matrix of enamel and secrete it at two distinct "putative secretory sites" characterized by membrane infoldings (Nanci and Warshawsky, 1984a).
(14) The other missionaries, Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol , were recently discharged from Emory University Hospital in Atlanta where they were treated for several weeks.
(15) 5.38pm GMT Here's video of Nancy Pelosi taking down jejune Luke Russert on the question of her age earlier today.
(16) I go, I have no wish to make a scene, but disloyalty, much, Govey will never forgive you, you do know we have replaced your neon with one of Nancy's pastels?
(17) Twenty years on, such directness may have lost some of its shock value, but Nancy Carroll, who plays Anna in the new production, doesn’t see this as a bad thing: “[The internet scene and a strip club scene] at the time took people’s breath away.
(18) Nancy Whiskin has managed a hugely successful effort to engage local people in volunteering.
(19) On Wednesday, Republicans such as Mike Rogers and Michele Bachmann joined House Democratic minority leader Nancy Pelosi and Republican Speaker John Boehner in voting with President Obama that we should be governed by our fears, rather than our values.
(20) Nancy Curtin, chief investment officer of Close Brothers Asset Management, said: “Our view that the US is recovering but not strong enough to trigger a reassessment of still benign monetary policy.