effete

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• There, a young research student, Helen Lyle, encounters graffiti warning of the Candyman, digs into the lore surrounding him, and discovers a sophisticated, effete serial killer.

• Tarantino says, “The days are gone” of Diego “pretending to be effete.”

• Some critics have made the same sorts of arguments about the remote and effete president.

• Unlike their effete northeastern shadows, country boys rarely fade away.

• The courtiers were an effete and in some cases epicene crew.

• It sees test scores as effete and irrelevant, like the older privileges of birth.

• When I went to basketball camp, the boys from the real West Virginia would make fun of us effete Morgantown kids.

• The taint was too inveterate to be eradicated; the evil was immedicable; Rome was already effete and moribund.

• Would those silly men, those servile votaries of fortune, those effete courtiers, have said this a week ago?

• Many chemical substances can be combined with water to cleanse these effete productions from the skin.

• The crocodile of America, superior in every detail to the crocodile of the effete monarchies of the Old World.

• The Terms had adopted mankind's culture, they had no further need of their native customs.