foppish
Example Sentences
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Emerging from a cult of nonpersonality, where ordinary figures with unassuming names like Ian Brown ascended to British music royalty, Brett Anderson, Suede’s fey and foppish androgyne, reintroduced theatricality and glamour to the scene.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 2, 2025
“He cultivated a kind of foppish screwball persona to go along with his acerbic pen.”
From New York Times • Jun. 6, 2024
Voisin, who has the mother-of-pearl skin that Balzac writes about, is perfectly cast as the naïve young poet who generates pity when he is foppish and humiliated at the theater.
From Salon • Jun. 10, 2022
They’ve also made a celebrity of his foppish head of hair, a cross between a traditional mullet and ’80’s hair band singer.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 23, 2022
Men began to wear their handkerchiefs in their sleeves and some foppish lieutenants carried swagger sticks.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
