fop

Example Sentences

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Creel, infusing every line reading with delectable originality, plays the Prince as a preening fop who excuses his behavior by explaining to Cinderella late in the musical that he’s meant to be charming, not sincere.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 3, 2023

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

As a painter, she saw the part of the surface that revealed the inner man — the bourgeois fop within the fiery revolutionary.

From New York Times • Mar. 21, 2020

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