Modifies a noun

• mind: IM speaks of the ' ' tracks of the effete mind ' ' , which is insufficient for our purposes.

• class: Call me effete, middle class or whatever you want, I head straight for the Dulwich Woodhouse when I want a drink.

• youth: These, it was suggested, were no longer the Tommies of the Great War but the effete British youth of recent Nazi propaganda.

• figure: He contrasts amusingly with the somewhat effete figures of King William III and his retinue.

Modifying Another Word

• somewhat: After some time they went to Rome where they transformed themselves into a somewhat effete aristocratic body tho they retained residual sovereign powers.

• too: You'd have been too effete, with your soft hands and Polo scent.

• rather: Emerging from it was a tall, rather effete looking man dressed in a white tropical suite.