effete
adjective
lacking in wholesome vigor; degenerate; decadent.
effeteness
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a word derived from
effete.
Example Sentences
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Entrance to such a club as this requires a certain pallidness, an achromasia, a terrific effeteness peculiar to the very high-born undead.
From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2014
There is a shaven-headed intensity about this 2010 side that rejects the effeteness of more naturally gifted Dutch teams.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 7, 2010
My boy, he said, should not be brought up with the same ideas of bourgeois effeteness and love of luxury which had disgraced the nation for centuries.
From The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
Before his union with Mandy he had been a stranger to such effeteness.
From Scattergood Baines by Clarence Budington Kelland
The Country Life Movement is not the despairing gasp of expiring effeteness; it is an exclamation of robust joy in the possession of a life healthily adapted to our needs.
From The American Country Girl by Martha Foote Crow
