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effete

/ih-feet/US // ɪˈfit //UK // (ɪˈfiːt) //

圆滑,圆滑的,圆润,高效的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : lacking in wholesome vigor; degenerate; decadent: an effete, overrefined society.
    • : exhausted of vigor or energy; worn out: an effete political force.
    • : unable to produce; sterile.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.spoiled, exhausted

Examples

  • There, a young research student, Helen Lyle, encounters graffiti warning of the Candyman, digs into the lore surrounding him, and discovers a sophisticated, effete serial killer.

  • Tarantino says, “The days are gone” of Diego “pretending to be effete.”

  • Some critics have made the same sorts of arguments about the remote and effete president.

  • Unlike their effete northeastern shadows, country boys rarely fade away.

  • The courtiers were an effete and in some cases epicene crew.

  • It sees test scores as effete and irrelevant, like the older privileges of birth.

  • When I went to basketball camp, the boys from the real West Virginia would make fun of us effete Morgantown kids.

  • The taint was too inveterate to be eradicated; the evil was immedicable; Rome was already effete and moribund.

  • Would those silly men, those servile votaries of fortune, those effete courtiers, have said this a week ago?

  • Many chemical substances can be combined with water to cleanse these effete productions from the skin.

  • The crocodile of America, superior in every detail to the crocodile of the effete monarchies of the Old World.

  • The Terms had adopted mankind's culture, they had no further need of their effete native customs.

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