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  • noun pejorative The act or process of sissifying.

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Examples

  • This is about the "sissification" of the US goverment!

    Brennan: Some Guantanamo detainees will go to Yemen 2010

  • Smerconish also claimed, several times, that this 'sissification' and 'limp-wristedness' is 'compromising our ability to win the war on terror.'"

    Michael Smerconish: First They Came for Imus 2008

  • "I often use the word 'sissification' or 'sissies,' 'Smerconish once said.

    David Fiderer: Sexual Perversity in Philadelphia: How Michael Smerconish Frames the War on Terror 2008

  • The Democratic brand isn't Maureen Dowd's concern, nor should it be, but it's perplexing that a paper as gay-friendly as the Times permits her ongoing sissification of male politicians for the sin of failing to live up to the sterling standards of the Rat Pack.

    Far from the Madding Dowd: James Wolcott Wolcott, James, 1952- 2009

  • "The Democratic brand isn't Maureen Dowd's concern, nor should it be, but it's perplexing that a paper as gay-friendly as the Times permits her ongoing sissification of male politicians for the sin of failing to live up to the sterling standards of the Rat Pack."

    Hey, James Wolcott called me a peeing intellectual nobility. Ann Althouse 2008

  • Grumbling leaguewide has begun over the sissification of the NFL; coaches won't be able to toughen up soft teams anymore.

    CNN.com 2011

  • He'll definitely fight to put a stop to the sissification that's taken place in the league rules over the past decade.

    Moonbattery 2009

  • Suzanne Denbow: I'm choosing to ignore this egregious sissification of a Ferrari and reflect instead on the ... michael gilbo: i think when it comes to the mercury marquis you guys are fool of crap, it was the best american car in ...

    Ride Lust - Motion + Mobility 2008

  • Suzanne Denbow: I'm choosing to ignore this egregious sissification of a Ferrari and reflect instead on the ... michael gilbo: i think when it comes to the mercury marquis you guys are fool of crap, it was the best american car in ...

    Ride Lust - Motion + Mobility 2008

  • Exhibit A. "Substituting for host Bill O'Reilly on the April 4, 2006, broadcast of Westwood One's The Radio Factor, nationally syndicated radio host Michael Smerconish repeatedly discussed 'the sissification of America,' claiming that political correctness has made the United States 'a nation of sissies. '

    Michael Smerconish: First They Came for Imus 2008

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