foppish
Example Sentences
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Foppish Don Diego Vega courts the daughter of a tyrant, whose henchman he fights as a masked avenger.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 8, 2021
Foppish and raffiné, his every gesture sketched out for me a strange, sophisticated world maybe not so far beyond the limits of the one I knew.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 1, 2014
Foppish back story: Most men cannot afford to buy shirts made of sea-island cotton.
From Slate • Apr. 9, 2012
Foppish scions in their 20s ascended the grand marble staircase, and sipped champagne in couture gowns, velvet dinner jackets and tuxedo slippers rakishly embroidered with Chinese characters.
From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2011
Foppish and fantastick Ornaments are only Indications of Vice, not criminal in themselves.
From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Addison, Joseph
Vocabulary lists containing foppish
Talk Like Shakespeare Day, List 2
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East of Eden
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"St. John's Eve" by Nikolai Gogol
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