foppish
Example Sentences
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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
The finery he breaks out when Edgar returns at the end to challenge Edmund to a duel is so ludicrously foppish I wondered if a young Liberace might have been the design inspiration.
From Los Angeles Times • May 16, 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
“His shoulder-rolling caricature of this suave, foppish and thoroughly henpecked kingpin is the film’s biggest treat,” wrote New York Times movie critic Janet Maslin.
From Washington Post • Nov. 9, 2021
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.
