Definition of "sissified" []

• Of, relating to, or having the characteristics of a sissy; timid, cowardly, or effeminate. (adjective)

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• "The inhibition that America finds sissified is part of the national character of Japan, for example, and it has been said that Lord Byron, the hero of the Romantic era, would have been regarded as a madman in the previous Age of Enlightenment."
• "Even now, from both the right and the left, high art is assailed as "elitist" or "nihilistic" or just plain sissified."
• "Alas, when witty and politically astute writers such as James J. Kilpatrick call the semi-colon "sissified" and "girly", it not only makes me realize I am congenitally inclined to identify with the pretty little things, but also makes me want to use; semi-colons; again; and again; and; again!"