Use of effete in Sentences. 17 Examples

The examples include effete at the start of sentence, effete at the end of sentence and effete in the middle of sentence

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effete at the end of sentence


  1. Could one call it decadent or effete?
  2. People said the aristocracy was effete.
  3. During the ages, Greek civilization declined and became effete.
  4. During the middle ages, Greek civilization declined and became effete.

effete in the middle of sentence


  1. A rich aroma of manure and wood smoke, pungent to my effete nostrils.
  2. With nothing to do all day the aristocracy had grown effete and lazy.
  3. If there were ever an illustration of an effete ruling elite, it is this.
  4. Do you know how many curly-haired, effete sycophants there are waiting to replace you?
  5. Besides, metacognition training has brought the effete of transfer to the academic results.
  6. Both were unpopular: Waugh as an effete reactionary; Orwell for his unfashionable anti-Stalinism.
  7. That's what these square, effete types did, I eventually figured: they listened to Bartok and bathed a lot.
  8. He studied the Gascon's dark effete face and the jewel-encrusted pearl which swung arrogantly from one ear lobe.
  9. The absurd and backward - looking notion of locating a research centre in an effete , rundown, has - been country.
  10. The Road to Wigan Pier's wanton polemics against effete intellectuals and strident feminists are suffused by homophobia.
  11. She commenced an impersonation of Hodges, piping inaudible words in effete falsetto, rolling her eyes like a stage Othello.
  12. If its people called you a liberal subversive in the pay of effete capitalist Western powers it was regarded as fair comment.
  13. If I had my choice of roles, I'd opt for Peter Ustinov's part: Lentulus Batiatus, the slave dealer and slightly effete villain.

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