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Effete
Effete meaning
exhausted, spent, worn-out. | Lacking strength or vitality; feeble, powerless, impotent. | Decadent, weak through self-indulgence.
Example sentences (3)
Grieve, the slightly effete and impeccably courteous former attorney general, is no more a romantic firebrand than Boles, his leading rival for the nickname Fey Guevara.
Effete Objectivist Paul Ryan resigns as High Priest of Libertarian Death Cult, to take job on television spewing rhetorical flatulence.
Vice President Spiro Agnew denounces the President's critics as 'an effete corps of impudent snobs' and 'nattering nabobs of negativism'.