effete

"Wine tasting" even more so seems like an effete, silly, snobby thing to do.

It is painful for me to see this effete hand waving be taken as seriously this.

So a weird power dynamic formed, as the new CEO was essentially effete.

Words like "pronatalist" just strike me as unbelievably effete.

All the snobby effete commenters who write off this trend, just wait until enough people are marginalized and they decide to do something about it.

This is something to aspire to?This whole genre of "happiness" pop-psychology seems essentially effete.

For example, school meals are often called 'school dinners'; and in many northern counties, calling the midday meal 'lunch' is still considered an effete southern neologism.

The plumbers have every right to think I'm an effete nerd, but if someone tells me my misogynist behavior is excluding women from the field of programming I care.

Capotes book, on the other hand [...][...]That other field, the much smaller one strewn with landmines, rusting rebar and barking dogs is called non-fiction or in its less effete incarnation, journalism.

In many cases the funding and justification are not there to improve the process, in no small part because of a traditional culture which tends to programming as effete play or impossible wizardry or both.

I came of age politically at the time when anybody to the left of Rush Limbaugh was an effete "latte liberal", and the word "elite" basically referred to anyone who had a college degree and saw through the insane rhetoric of the time.

The effete playboy of the series had a good one that I'll briefly include here to outline the importance of the core issue as it relates to the subtle strings of force in our political existence;"So you think that money is the root of all evil?

This will be dismissed as racist, pseudo-intellectual drivel by the effete silicon set, but anyone wanting to understand why this happens ought to read Jack Donovan's excellent essay "The way of the Gang" to understand why grown men do this kind of thing.

Bear in mind we're talking about the Telegraph here...they're just as likely to publish an op-ed tomorrow dismissing yoga as an effete liberal pursuit and bemoaning the difficulty of obtaining a traditional English steak and kidney pie or Yorkshire pudding, an edible form of kryptonite.