(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.
Unman
Definition:
(v. t.) To deprive of the distinctive qualities of a human being, as reason, or the like.
(v. t.) To emasculate; to deprive of virility.
(v. t.) To deprive of the courage and fortitude of a man; to break or subdue the manly spirit in; to cause to despond; to dishearten; to make womanish.
(v. t.) To deprive of men; as, to unman a ship.
Example Sentences:
(1) They include two leading Republican hopefuls for the presidential race in 2016, Rand Paul and Marco Rubio; three of them enjoy A+ rankings from the NRA and a further eight are listed A. Rand Paul of Kentucky The junior senator's penchant for filibusters became famous during his nearly 13-hour speech against the use unmanned drones, and he is one of three senators who sent an initial missive to Reid , warning him of another verbose round.
(2) Unmanned drones help enormously with this problem as they can be operated via satellite from thousands of miles away and dramatically lower the risk to British forces.
(3) I don’t do the social media myself, so who knows.” The Pentagon said the drone, also described as a “glider” or unmanned underwater vehicle, was deployed by civilian contractors aboard the USNS Bowditch, a scientific research ship.
(4) Last month, an unmanned drone strike in Pakistan near the Afghan border killed one of Jalaluddin Haqqani's sons – Badruddin, who was considered a vital part of the Haqqani structure.
(5) Thrun, seeking to reassure anyone worried about the risk posed by an automated car in the California experiment, said: "Our cars are never unmanned.
(6) It maintains that the undeclared air war in Pakistan and Yemen "is totally a function of the existence of an unmanned capability – it is unlikely a similar scale of force would be used if this capability were not available".
(7) Bullish as ever, a press release reveals that the service should be available by 2015 – once the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)'s rules on the safety of unmanned aerial vehicles are finalised.
(8) Just as the internet has revolutionised the transport of online data, the company says a network of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) – the "matternet" – could do the same for supplies.
(9) On Friday, an unmanned SpaceX Falcon rocket is set to take off from Cape Canaveral for the International Space Station orbiting Earth.
(10) In an undercover sting, reporters from the Sunday Times approached several former senior members of the military purporting to be representatives of from a South Korean defence firm seeking to sell an unmanned aerial vehicle, or drone, to the UK military.
(11) With these unmanned craft, governments can fight a coward's war, a god's war, harming only the unnamed.
(12) Cat gives station new lease of life Read more Tama quickly became Japan’s most famous cat after she was appointed honorary stationmaster at the unmanned Kishi station in rural Wakayama prefecture, western Japan, in 2007.
(13) Unmanned aircraft range from no bigger than a hummingbird to the size of an airliner, and their capabilities are improving rapidly.
(14) An unmanned spacecraft with a giant telescoping plunger would fly to the asteroid, suck it in, and secure it in a truly industrial-strength Hefty bag of sorts.
(15) We have successfully brought new technology into the nation's aviation system for more than 50 years, and I have no doubt we will do the same with unmanned aircraft.” An industry-commissioned study has predicted that more than 70,000 jobs would develop in the first three years after Congress loosens drone restrictions on US skies.
(16) Each hour that goes by with the prisons unmanned, the danger ramps up.” The POA said on Tuesday evening that it had asked its members to comply with the court order from 5pm.
(17) A spokesman said: "All operations, including those involving unmanned aerial systems, are informed by appropriate legal advice and are conducted in accordance with applicable International Humanitarian Law.
(18) These Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) – which rely on fibre optic cables, European "upstations" and satellite links – are part of an international trend towards remote combat.
(19) Rolls-Royce , the British engineering company developing the ships, claims the unmanned ships will be cheaper, greener and safer than those with a full complement of captain and crew.
(20) Amazon has turned the heat up on the Federal Aviation Administration, warning that unless the government agency allows it to start testing drones on US soil as part of its ambition to deliver products by unmanned aircraft it will be forced to shift its operations abroad.