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Synonyms for effete

marked by excessive self-indulgence and moral decay

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According to reliable sources, the terrorists could be eliminated and extremists and other elements could be effetely dealt through Anti-terrorist Act as it provides legal formwork to empower the government.
He said the recent devastation has reminded to strengthen of our national disaster institutions to effective counter and minimise the effetely of natural catastrophe.
With Anna Caterina Antonacci's entrance as Donna Elvira the narrative progresses to the seventeenth-century and Don Giovanni is an effetely wigged snuff sniffing courtier (one of seven major costume changes in the work).
Salvatore Sciarrino, a composer I have previously admired for his fastidious ear, was here represented by his L'Alibi della Parola, an effetely Orwellian vision which drew upon medieval chant (as so many Italian composers do) to add perspective to its overladen emotional baggage.