Meaning & use
sissified
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Dated and often derogatory: made to seem or regarded as weak, timid, or effeminate.
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Critics in the 1950s dismissed the fashion as sissified, reflecting the era's rigid gender norms.
He refused to wear the pink shirt, worried his friends would call it sissified.
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A dated term now widely considered offensive or old-fashioned; contemporary writing generally avoids it in favor of neutral language.
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