Effeminate used in a sentence

Effeminate in a sentence as an adjective

It's calling a man effeminate as an insult.

Indeed, the friend who works in nursing is a campy and effeminate gay man.

Even gay men, crossdressing men, effeminate men and straight butch guys?

You know that typically refers to gay men, right?edit: gay or effeminate, as a slur.

Most people think this is the normal and right way to do things, and are fearful of "lazy" systems practiced by the effeminate Europeans.

For example: gay men are still men, and in my experience, most of them are not effeminate and still want to be seen as men--as tough, as strong.

A lot of 18th century male behaviour would today be regarded as effeminate.

I prefer Homophobic Encryption: you obscure what you're saying by speaking in an extremely effeminate voice.

I wish you could have written this without the ad hom implication that men who like certain colors are necessarily both effeminate and puerile.

And some straight men want to be effeminate and do not want to be expected to be tough and strong, but they don't want to people to expect them to be gay just because they are effeminate.

Not only does online dating have zero stigma for gay folks, it's one of the few viable routes for finding other gay people who don't appear flamboyant or effeminate.

Being queer doesn't mean engaging in stereotypical, effeminate behaviors like the ones you're describing.

This is why it's comparatively okay for women to be tomboys and such, and highly frowned upon for men to be effeminate or show what are considered feminine traits.

Note this is the same fallacious thinking and biased observation that believes gay == flamboyant/effeminate, southern US == stupid, suit == powerful, etc.

Do men have to be effeminate to identify with isolated feminine characteristics?

Possibly from Old English derogatory term bddel and its diminutive bdling "effeminate man, *************, pederast"