foppery

There was certainly no harm in his travelling sixteen miles twice over on such an errand; but there was an air of foppery and nonsense in it which she could not approve.

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

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

But the Pilgrims, who regarded personal adornment as a species of idolatry, were dismayed by what they saw as the indigenous penchant for foppery.

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.