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Usage for effete




“For such a long time, the Americans just saw Englishmen as these slightly effete sort of wimpy guys. “Now Russell has changed the attitude single-handedly.” Mirren recently insisted she is “very comfortable” with her sexuality. “I'm not beautiful. ...

After that, the Pakistani state, such as it existed, began imploding with an effete civilian Government, happy to be putty in the hands of a corrupt, unreliable and unstable Army, watching from the sidelines. With each passing day of blood-curdling ...

While I love gas ranges, and only wish I still had one instead of the electric coils beneath ceramic glass in my new apartment, when it comes to outdoor meat cookery, gas is a perversion and a corruption, effete and decadent. It justifies every jeer we ...


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