effete

an effete system of education

the authority of an effete aristocracy began to dwindle.

the final, effete period of the baroque style.

effete trendies from art college.

an effete group of self-professed intellectuals.

No one, therefore, can accuse Mr Webb of being an effete peacenik.

People in the north are astonished, you know, that we're not just effete Southerners.

And the media, we're all effete, elitist assholes.

It was soon predicted that the self-made men of yore would be replaced by effete company drones who did what they were told.

We hunt from the car, which the Major considered effete. The custom antedates automobiles, going back to the days of the hunting wagon.