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effete

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1. effete - Adjective

2. effete - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

No longer capable of producing young, as an animal, or fruit, as the earth; hence, worn out with age; exhausted of energy; incapable of efficient action; no longer productive; barren; sterile.

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fundamentalism has flowered because it has concluded that liberalism is effete, ineffectual and impoverished Source: Internet

the young man spoke in effete, accented English Source: Internet

But his impassioned egghead advisers have made his campaign seem not only out of his control, but effete and vaguely foreign -- the same unflattering light that doomed Michael Dukakis and John Kerry. Source: Internet

So hedge fund douches, effete liberal douches, mama’s basement gamers, sports douches-they can seem similar despite very obvious dissimilarities because the chick-hate is what’s standardized, not the haters. Source: Internet

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