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effete

adjective

lacking vigor, strength, or vitality; morally or physically weak and refined to a point of insensitivity or decadence

The effete aristocrats of the 1920s dismissed the working class as crude and unrefined, embodying a cultural disdain for authenticity.

Also decadent · feeble · lacking vitality · morally weak

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