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Definition
physically weak — especially due to self-indulgence and moral decay
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said disapprovingly: more typical of a woman than a man
or:
said disapprovingly: more typical of a woman than a man
- 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."
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