sissified

"People used to think cooking was a sissified thing."

In my opinion it is a sissified sport.

Then Blatchford condemns a sissified culture in which men hug ever:

She replied that the name sounded "too sissified" and suggested Mickey Mouse instead.

These were the steely-eyed gunslingers we needed to protect us, they said, not those sissified girlie-men Democrats.

Mr. Burnett once told an interviewer that his job was to change a "sissified" cigarette into a macho one.

That's what the campaign did to you: made you think you'd finally, after all those years of sissified dislike for capital punishment, really like to kill.

He had kind of a sissified way of holding his cigarette, Tyler thought, up in front of him and between the tips of two fingers.

This was barely more than two decades ago, when the first few players from Europe were seen as sissified scab laborers, taking jobs away from real men.

It was rumored that someone in the CBS network, or a sponsor, thought Sonny was too "sissified."

So great was his fame in the late 1930's that it made headlines when he had his customary curls sheared off because he thought them "too sissified."

Yes, there are sloppy Joes and french fries topped with Harley chili, but also such sissified fare as house-smoked portobello mushroom sandwiches.

Please Kill Me includes interviews with punks in New York and Detroit who "rip their English counterparts as a bunch of sissified poseurs".

I gave it to them straight: I didn't call it Super Bowl L, because Super Bowl L sounded sissified.

Against his will, Alfalfa invites his sissified Cousin Wilbur (Our Gang alumni Scotty Beckett) to join the All 4 One Club.

In the great visor debate, the other Maple Leafs and most N.H.L. players think that a visor is either too hot, too foggy or too cumbersome, if not too sissified.

After Mr. Bakker admitted last year that he had a sexual encounter with a church secretary in 1980, Mr. Swaggart often railed from the pulpit and on evangelistic crusades against "sissified preachers."

The others consulted among themselves, and finally one opened his filthy shirt and showed Diego the medallion, more than ready to fight this sissified man with woman's hands who still smelled of his mother's milk, as he put it.

But as a great deal of fist-happy recent literature can attest (not to mention our country's muscular forays abroad), I am clearly in the sissified New York minority, cowering beneath my writing desk on the wrong side of the Hudson.

A weekend of living out a rootin' shootin' Wild West fantasy surrounded by the sissified comforts of cooked meals, tennis, arts and crafts, year-round swimming, and entertainment seemed an ideal enough way of bridging the fearsome 48-hour gap when schoolteachers take their weekly rest, thereby ending yours.