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How to use foppery in a sentence
Yet, if one looks closely, under the froth and foppery, some of the charm and perception of the man still shines through.
A LETTER FROM MR. CIBBER TO MR. POPECOLLEY CIBBERTheron looked at his interrogator with a frown of disdain for his foppery.
THE PROUD PRINCEJUSTIN HUNTLY MCCARTHYThey despised wealth just as other nations despise effeminacy and foppery.
XERXESJACOB ABBOTTThen follow references to Cæsar's sayings as to his star, and the "common foppery" as to the sun mourning his death a year.
MONTAIGNE AND SHAKSPEREJOHN M. ROBERTSONMy master was an elderly beau; and I gave myself no care that he had spent his money—the money of the expedition—on foppery.
LAZARREMARY HARTWELL CATHERWOODThey thought the Butterflies added to the screaming farce, the foppery of the whole thing.
THE LIFE OF JAMES MCNEILL WHISTLERELIZABETH ROBINS PENNELLIf Tooke was not a philosopher he was a man of remarkably shrewd cynical common sense, who thought philosophy idle foppery.
THE ENGLISH UTILITARIANS, VOLUME I.LESLIE STEPHENMilton's having cherished that 'foppery' was a sufficient argument for detesting it.
THE POSTHUMOUS WORKS OF THOMAS DE QUINCEY, VOL. 1 (2 VOLS)THOMAS DE QUINCEYWe are not to think that foppery and coxcombry are generated exclusively in civilized life.
EARLY WESTERN TRAVELS 1748-1846, VOLUME XXVARIOUSThe thing is perfectly harmless in itself, but it marks a sort of foppery in the human character, which degrades it.
THE WRITINGS OF THOMAS PAINE, VOLUME IITHOMAS PAINEWORDS RELATED TO FOPPERY
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