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effete

English

  1. 🔊 deprived of vigor and the ability to be effective
    “fundamentalism has flowered because it has concluded that liberalism is effete, ineffectual and impoverished”
  2. 🔊 affected, overrefined, and effeminate
    “the young man spoke in effete, accented English”

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