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  • adverb In an effete manner.

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Examples

  • Rove, you're effetely hilarious, overpaid, irrelevant and probably going to jail soon.

    Rove slams Obama over 'bitter' comments, flag pin 2008

  • My complaint about these restrictions and so many other prohibited items in many places it is effetely restricts what you are allowed to carry around on you person if you plan to do certain thing.

    Step back from the hairbrush or I’ll shoot « BuzzMachine 2008

  • To listen to these media stars effetely condemn investigations as though they're something which only hateful, rabble-rousing radicals would want to pursue tells you all you need to know about how fundamentally broken the national media is.

    Investigations are so very rude and distasteful Glenn Greenwald 2006

  • To listen to these media stars effetely condemn investigations as though they're something which only hateful, rabble-rousing radicals would want to pursue tells you all you need to know about how fundamentally broken the national media is.

    Archive 2006-05-01 Glenn Greenwald 2006

  • Today, though, Lowry is effetely lamenting the fact that McCain was booed at a highly politicized college by liberal students when McCain praised the Iraq War.

    Archive 2006-05-01 Glenn Greenwald 2006

  • Today, though, Lowry is effetely lamenting the fact that McCain was booed at a highly politicized college by liberal students when McCain praised the Iraq War.

    Various items Glenn Greenwald 2006

  • The bear, with the politeness which appeared to cling to all classes of society in this effetely civilized West, rose up and sat on his haunches, facing his visitor.

    Peak and Prairie From a Colorado Sketch-book Anna Fuller 1884

  • Optimus effetely takes this idea of a PC transmission from the pre 1900s to present day by making the switch automatic and no longer requiring a reboot.

    TG Daily Rob Enderle 2010

  • We bless and we curse effetely all the livelong day, vaguely cognizant of some long lost momentousness, too jejune in our materialism to believe in anything.

    WORLDMag.com Andrée Seu 2010

  • We bless and we curse effetely all the livelong day, vaguely cognizant of some long lost momentousness, too jejune in our materialism to believe in anything.

    WORLDMag.com 2010

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