Sentence examples similar to effeminize from inspiring English sources

Marc Antony was roundly mocked as having been "softened and effeminized" by his desire for Cleopatra.

While strenuously seeking to keep secret the memos that permitted the CIA to engage in torture, George W Bush ran for re-election in 2004 as the strong-man savior the country needed to protect itself from another terrorist catastrophe, all while his campaign and its various tendrils belittled and effeminized a Vietnam veteran, John Kerry, much as Trump has ridiculed John McCain.