fop
Example Sentences
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It led to him being described as a "red-socked fop" by Labour's former deputy prime minister John Prescott.
From BBC • Jul. 28, 2022
The Big 12 was next with four teams, though it marked the second straight week the league didn't have at least one team in the fop five.
From Fox News • Feb. 7, 2022
There’s a welcome, self-conscious wit in such metamorphoses, as when Mr. Merrick, playing a foot soldier, looks in wonder after the aristocratic fop who has just left the stage, also played by Mr. Merrick.
From New York Times • Aug. 21, 2019
Mary seems like a promising foil initially, resenting her husband’s new friends and flirting with a fop, so he divorces her.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2017
Wasn’t he really a snob, and a fop, and frivolous on serious occasions, as she had once told him during a quarrel?
From "Abel's Island" by William Steig
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