How to pronounce effete:
Example: "The young man spoke in effete, accented english"
Example: "Fundamentalism has flowered because it has concluded that liberalism is effete, ineffectual and impoverished"
Of substances, quantities etc: exhausted, spent, worn-out.
Lacking strength or vitality; feeble, powerless, impotent.
Decadent, weak through self-indulgence.
(of a person) affected, overrefined