Effeminate

For instance, the King James Version uses the term effeminate which is an offensive term to describe a man whose behavior, appearance or speech is considered to be more similar to that of females.

It's the "unbecoming" part that leads me to associate the word effeminate with a degree of campiness that I don't believe applies to Renly and Loras. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But the male assumes his influence to be normal, human, and the female influence as wholly a matter of sex; therefore, where women teach boys, the boys become "effeminate" -- a grievous fall. ❋ Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1897)

The adjectives and derivatives based on woman's distinctions are alien and derogatory when applied to human affairs; "effeminate" -- too female, connotes contempt, but has no masculine analogue; whereas "emasculate" -- not enough male, is a term of reproach, and has no feminine analogue. ❋ Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1897)

His complexion might in itself be called effeminate, its bloom was so fresh and delicate; but there was so much of boldness and energy in the play of his countenance, the hardy outline of the lips, and the open breadth of the forehead, that "effeminate" was an epithet no one ever assigned to his aspect. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)

I wonder how much the boys' recourse to "prescribed" externalizations of genuine depression-- particularly boys who have a real hangup about being "effeminate"-- winds up in the form of almost exclusively emotionally abusive relationships. ❋ JLK (2009)

If men engage in homosexual act or a homosexual relationship and they are perceived as being effeminate, that is when they are more likely to be the victims of persecution. ❋ Unknown (2007)

In other cultures he might be described as effeminate and, therefore, be an object of derision. ❋ Lustbader, Eric (1983)

That which is soft and effeminate, which is calculated to excite the passions, by multitudes of ambiguous expressions, (not the less dangerous for being so cloaked) should be considered by Christians as an abuse the more deplorable, as it has even been censured and condemned by the pagans. ❋ Father Candide Chalippe (N/A)

Taken as a whole, there is something impalpable and immaterial about him, which I will not venture to call effeminate, but which is scarcely manly. ❋ Henri Fr��d��ric Amiel (1885)

He was also described as effeminate, and most of his friends were girls. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Phrynichus 'pieces, or of Agathon's, whom Plato describes as effeminate, but sweet and affecting, and who was a contemporary of Euripides, though somewhat his junior. ❋ August Wilhelm Schlegel (1806)

However, while we've come to a point where society can accept diverse female interests, society still can't completely stomach the idea of men crossing the same genre barriers, lest they be called effeminate or gay. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And any boy who bucks gender orthodoxy at school by wearing so-called effeminate clothes or showing affection for a male friend may suffer tragic consequences, as did Larry King, the 15 year old openly gay Oxnard middle school student who was murdered by one of his classmates in February. ❋ Unknown (2010)

This term is correctly translated to the word effeminate or weak.

Hare, For all that j give me fome of thofc pleafures y oU; call effeminate too; they help to reliihone another*., ❋ Unknown (1780)

Ryan, I think for many folks when speaking of someone who is gay, "effeminate" is used by some as polite code for "a flaming queen" or some other more vulgar term for someone who is not as "straight acting" as others. ❋ Unknown (2009)

When I hear the word "effeminate" to describe a man, I imagine a man with mannerisms and speech that one would normally attribute to a woman. ❋ Unknown (2009)