Example Sentences

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But then there are her fragile-looking hands gathered effeminately, self-protectively at her heart.

From The Guardian • May 26, 2012

When, says Reynolds, mustachioed Czar Peter the Great rebuked a Western ambassador for being effeminately clean-shaven, the envoy pertly retorted: "Had my royal master measured wisdom by the beard, he would have sent a goat."

From Time Magazine Archive

The young man was slim, and effeminately good-looking.

From The Testing of Diana Mallory by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

They were gathered trimly around an effeminately slender waist, and then ballooned out to an absurd width, only to contract again skin tight around the knees.

From The Leopard Woman by White, Stewart Edward

I'm getting into the habit of doing everything so languidly, so effeminately, Jack, that I wonder sometimes if there is any masculine vigor left in me.

From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 by Various