effete, adj.
deprived of vigor and the ability to be effective
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effete
sample sentences
"fundamentalism has flowered because it has concluded that liberalism is effete, ineffectual and impoverished"
semantic pointers
similar to
affected, overrefined, and effeminate
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effete
sample sentences
"the young man spoke in effete, accented English"
semantic pointers
similar to