Meaning of 'effeminate' in Maltese is: effeminate

effeminate: effeminate

Adjective:

femminili, dgħajfa, ħażin, infermità, ħass ħażin, passjonat, offerta, artab, delikat, ħafif, klementi.

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Adjective(1) having unsuitable feminine qualities(2) characterized by excessive softness or self-indulgence(3) having female qualities

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(1) That's the thing with a lot of straight guys, they think that because we're gay we're submissive and all effeminate and we're going to back down.(2) Then two old ladies started kicking up a fuss telling the boys off, making the bigger one get protective of the more effeminate one.(3) Smith spends the remainder of the film chomping on cigars with an effeminate scientist.(4) There were effeminate guys who were looking for more macho guys.(5) What Westerners construed as effeminate is in fact virile, an assertion of perfected control and independence.(6) Nearly every Englishman of working-class origin considers it effeminate to pronounce a foreign word correctly.(7) He had extremely effeminate hands and gestures.(8) It's the tale of a delicate, sheltered little prince who leaves his castle and ventures into a world with no patience for effeminate and ineffectual aristocrats.(9) He is artsy, creative, colourful and ultimately effeminate .(10) While I was at High School, there was a guy in the year above me who was picked on and teased mercilessly because he was effeminate .(11) The effeminate males in view were youths, not children.(12) They adopt feminine dress, footwear donned not for wear but for show, and an affected effeminate gait.(13) And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate , does he not?(14) I don't think cooking is effeminate - I'd question the sexual orientation of anyone who said that!(15) Thus they make a great point of being hostile to gay men, especially to effeminate gay men.(16) By making u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510gayu251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb equate with effeminate , society has done a good job of creating a minority closed category which forces people to take sides.