foppery

Example Sentences

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In “King Lear,” the illegitimate son, Edmund, says that blaming bad behavior on planetary influences is “foppery.”

From The New Yorker

All this expensive fashion foppery came at the expense of the poor.

From New York Times

If America chooses to ignore this due to naiveté, strategic foppery or bean counting, we will be subjects to those powers that are more fastidious and realistic in their approach.

From US News

The victory’s unifying impact was felt nationwide, with Jackson cast as a new kind of hero: one who resonated with the demos—trappers, yeoman, servants, day laborers, and other rough-hewn, Westernizing folk who viewed the East Coast as a bastion of aristocratic foppery.

From The New Yorker

Appropriate for a story about a man who wears two hats, Ost also has created the smashing costumes, dark Victorian exaggerations with Goth references that showcase garters, suspenders, white crisp shirts, foppery and hats.

From Seattle Times