effeminateness

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• Born as men, they traditionally veer toward effeminate appearance and style.

• Komnenos’s dark skin matched his dignity since it did not display “an effeminate paleness … having aspired to an appearance that one does not find on womanly or soft people.”

• In contrast, male Disney villains are frequently portrayed as visibly effeminate.

• Real liberation wasn’t necessarily about making women more manly or allowing men to be effeminate.

• As played by Omundson, King Richard is effeminate, sincere, and ten times funnier than everyone else.

• I just knew there were gays, and they were men who were very effeminate.

• Ronaldo is often accused of being a pretty boy, a not-so-subtle way of accusing him of being overly effeminate.

• And did you know that effeminate men in the 18th-century were known as “mollies”?

• Cutthroat, abusive, and—at times—barbaric, he picked on Michael for being effeminate, having a big nose, and “liver lips.”

• And I will give children to be their princes, and the effeminate shall rule over them.

• Another glimpse of d'Arthez is as the unselfish friend of Marie Gaston, a young poet of his stamp, but "effeminate."

• She made her lover effeminate and materialistic, advising with him about everything.

• It seemed almost effeminate to surrender his burden to one who had hardly yet rested after a long journey.

• He was handsome in a cruel sort of way and almost effeminate in his liking to stand before them and admire himself.