Sample Sentences foreffete (auto-selected)
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That it is a monument to the privilege of the nobility, the effeteness of the intelligentsia, and the predatory pricing of speculators.† (source)
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Manchek disliked Jaggers, who was effete and precious.† (source)
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Compared to the imposing swagger of Prusias, Astaroth was almost delicate, effete.† (source)
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It is not an effete organization.† (source)
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Even Governor La Fayette, traitorous effete Feuillant dog that he was, seemed enthusiastic about the battle ahead.† (source)
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There was something extremely unsettling about eyes of such power in a body so frail and effete.† (source)
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Tension, apprehension, and dissension have begun...Maria was introducing another effete, all gush, all cropped copper hair, all fuchsia blouse and Prussian blue culottes.† (source)
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BOTARD: [to DUDARD] All you get at the universities are effete intellectuals with no practical knowledge of life.† (source)
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A virile new Britain cannot continue indefinitely to be traduced in the eyes, or rather ears, of the world by the effete languors of Langham Place, brazenly masquerading as "standard English."† (source)
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The face in the moonlight looked singularly earnest, and recalled to Marguerite's aching heart those happy days of courtship, before he had become the lazy nincompoop, the effete fop, whose life seemed spent in card and supper rooms.† (source)
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My auxiliaries are the dews and rains which water this dry soil, and what fertility is in the soil itself, which for the most part is lean and effete.† (source)
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Here was I thinking you a new-sprung child of nature; there were you, the belated seedling of an effete aristocracy!† (source)
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He looked well-fed, indolent, rich, effete, and supremely self-satisfied.† (source)
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You are the great Western Barbarian, stepping forth in his innocence and might, gazing a while at this poor effete Old World and then swooping down on it.† (source)
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There was nothing of the "effete East" about Alfred Hammond; he might have been a Westerner all his days.† (source)
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I do not speak of the mincing, effete courtesy of these desperate times, but the virile, robust courtesy born in that most violent of times, the Middle Ages.† (source)
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