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His characters were often working-class figures (unlike the effete Noel Coward fops who dominated London stages when Pinter got his start in the 1950s), and they spoke in blunt, everyday idioms, with a liberal dose of obscenity.— Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
Rick Davis, speaking on behalf of his $100 million man John McCain, earlier this month offered the latest formulation of Barack Obama as an effete, aloof denizen of the upper class:— Top Stories - Google News
But it had long since become effete, and all power had passed into the hands of the great vassals.— The Sayings Of Confucius
The feelings expressed in Addison's essays on the ballads were part of the general patriotic archaism which at that time was moving in rapport with cyclic theories of the robust and the effete, as in Temple's essays, and was complicating the issue of the classical ancients versus the moderns.— Parodies of Ballad Criticism (1711-1787) A Comment Upon the History of Tom Thumb, 1711, by William Wagstaffe; The Knave of Hearts, 1787, by George Canning
He learned that the Wolffian philosophy was becoming effete, and so he raised the cry, loud and clear, against its longer existence.— History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology

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