limp-wristed

American  

[limp-ris-tid] / ˈlɪmpˌrɪs tɪd /

adjective

1. Slang: Disparaging and Offensive. (especially of a gay man) effeminate.

2. soft; flabby; ineffectual.

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limp-wristed British  

adjective

1. ineffectual; effete

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Etymology

Origin of limp-wristed

First recorded in 1955–60; limp ² + wrist + -ed ³

Example Sentences

Another shows Bolles in a T-shirt with a picture of a limp-wristed Che Guevara above the words “Socialism Is For F-gs”.

From The Guardian

“There was even this period ‘the pansy craze’ where it was fashionable to have limp-wristed men in movies who may have been gay or trans or entirely outside that in movies.”

From The Guardian

But not before an article in Confidential, the bimonthly gossip rag from which Hunter’s memoir borrows its name, reported on the then 24-year-old’s involvement in an arrest at a “limp-wristed pajama party” where other gay males were in attendance.

From The Guardian

Yet he also credited the studio with standing behind him when he received negative publicity, most notably when Confidential magazine reported in 1955 that he had been arrested for disorderly conduct at a “limp-wristed pajama party” attended by several other gay men.

From Washington Post

By that point, I had more or less made peace with my sexuality, but I had decided, like so many tortured 13-year-olds before me, that I wouldn’t be that kind of gay—the wimp, the pansy, the limp-wristed mincer who betrayed his own sex.

From Slate