effete
দুর্বল
definition
adjective
effete trendies from art college
(of a person) affected, overrefined, and ineffectual.
translation of 'effete'
adjective
অক্ষম,
দুর্বল,
জীর্ণ,
ক্ষীণ,
নি:শেষিত
example
Europe is weak and 'effete' , a bunch of ingrates who have turned their backs on us after we bailed them out during WWII.
In conditions of unbelievable misery, with rain, sleet and hailstones whistling about their ears, the 'effete' foreigners somehow put the balaclava-covered Brits to the sword.
Being perceived as an 'effete' art student often made the dressing room a very uncomfortable place for me.
The 'effete' middle class Oxonian dullards despise him as much for being a working class man with big ideas about himself, who insists on speaking in complete sentences and making sense, as for his politics.
Tomes have been written on how, in late 18 th-century France, an 'effete' and ineffectual monarchy was replaced by the tyranny of the sans-culottes and the bloodlust of the Committee for Public Safety.
When they became more successful, they were worried that the young men would become 'effete' .
I'm old enough to have signed contracts that date back to the old law that Lessig wants us to return to - an Oz-like paradise when the U.S. went its own manly way in copyright and spurned the 'effete' conventions of the rest of the world.
Being far happier sending back despatches from the trenches of war-torn middle-eastern countries, she is none too impressed at the idea of being forced instead to hob-nob with 'effete' Englishmen.
I do not think there has been one French leader who had a good word for the tea drinkers of this world: they are lumped together and seen as 'effete' Englishmen, no doubt to the horror of the Irish; and other heavy tea drinkers.
Any good Alabama cop knows that writers are 'effete' liberals who stay up all night doing drugs with their decadent friends.
To carry the analogy a little further, the Japanese would be the English of Asia - reserved, 'effete' , cultured to the point of snobbery, at least in the face they present to outsiders.
The British bourgeoisie is not subaltern to an 'effete' but tenacious aristocracy.
Meanwhile, every American who believes in racial equality and human dignity should sympathize with the rioters, not with the 'effete' bigots on the Seine.
For Trotsky the f-word was a sign of slavery, the sigh of the oppressed, but for Steven Berkoff it is ‘a sign of passion’, a mark of working-class resistance to an 'effete' and effeminate middle class.
A general reading of school textbooks would convince one that the Mughal rulers were all weak, 'effete' and full of vices.
The aristocracy are slightly unreal and living in an 'effete' world.
A thought: if your opponent has $100 million to portray you as an 'effete' snob, don't go on vacation to a fancy ski resort in Idaho.
Unfortunately, National Minorities Commission is 'effete' because the persons, who hold positions there, have personal interests above their constitutional obligations.
German fox-hunters tended to be aristocratic, in his view 'effete' and probably Anglophile.
The aged West has grown rather 'effete' and prefers to avoid ideological confrontation.
His successor was hated as an 'effete' playboy.
The 'effete' aristocrats must rely on the butler's practical skills to survive, and the balance of power shifts from master to servant.
The security of my men and the stability of my prison was at stake, and now, I had to deal with this bleeding-heart, liberal, academic, 'effete' dingdong who was concerned about the independent variable!
You know better than anyone that such obituaries issue from 'effete' societies.
But if losing the Heineken European Cup annoyed the Catalans, then losing the final of the French championships last June to a bunch of 'effete' Parisians made them really sore.
More on Minnesota's Angry Humorist: The New York Post's Page Six column calls him an 'effete' egghead, but that doesn't quite capture it.
I think it's important to read because it makes clear that he's not some 'effete' lefty urbanite like me: he's a sober heartland working-class American who knows whereof he speaks.
They saw us with our floppy fringes and 'effete' mannerisms and went mental.
For the last several days, crime has taken on hitherto unheard of proportions - almost daily on radio, TV and in the print media, the public is reminded of the apparent 'effeteness' of the police in the face of mounting crime.
This is attractive music, in which there is not a trace of 'effeteness' .
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