effeteadjective
uk/ɪˈfiːt/us/ɪˈfiːt/literary disapproving weak and without much power:
With nothing to do all day the aristocracy had grown effete and lazy.
disapproving more typical of a woman than of a man
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Weakness and vulnerability
- Achilles heel
- at a low ebb idiom
- be (only) flesh and blood idiom
- be sb's poodle idiom
- chink in sb's armour idiom
- ebb
- faint
- indefensible
- lax
- limp
- malleable
- man of straw
- susceptible
- toothless
- totter
- underbelly
- unprotected
- unsteady
- vulnerable
- wraith
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