[4790]Alcibiades was still dallying with wanton young women, immoderate in his expenses, effeminate in his apparel, ever in love, but why?

His work is also criticised as being too effeminate for ordinary readers.

Although he was refined and gentlemanly, there was not the least suggestion of anything soft or effeminate about him.

The Mongol soldiers had become effeminate through their life of idleness in the towns.

We have gone over in succession, and without break, the last cruel sufferings of the French Protestants; we now turn away our eyes with a feeling of relief mingled with respect and pride; we leave the free air of the desert to return to the rakes and effeminates of Louis XV.'s court.

Why did the great Persian Empire become as effeminate as the empires it had supplanted?

The warrener, as his name implies, is a member of a subterranean community, and is less effeminate than his kindred who dwell upon the earth and have "the world at their will," and his fur is the most esteemed.