单词 | effete |
释义 | ef·fete 1. < eroded effete earth > 2. a. of a substance b. < effete, weary, burned-out revolutionists — H.F.Mooney > c. < effete literary critics and dogmatic professors — J.T.Farrell > : degenerate < a soft, effete, and decadent race — R.P.Parsons > d. < vaguely educated for minor diplomatic or other governmental posts in an effete struggle to maintain position — Janet Flanner > e. < the effete householder who wants things done for him — New Yorker > < the effete gentility that lay like a blight on the critical writing of the nineties — C.I.Glicksberg > f. < an old but by no means effete statute — Edward Jenks > • effetely • effeteness |
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