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Word: sissifiedâ (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1976-1976
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Usage:

...most visibly converge and conflict, the recreation that most remarkably reveals those double-fault lines in American marriage?a want of kindness, a shortage of manners. The swift transformation of a game once played mainly by the happy few?mannerly, immaculately clad and, to the popular mind, a bit sissified???into a mass middle-class mania, which may soon be pursued by more women than men, has already worked a number of apparently permanent small changes in American social life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: Sex& Tennis | 9/6/1976 | See Source »

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