foppery

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noun luxury, nice touch

noun. luxury, nice touch

1540s, "foolish action," from fop + -ery. Meaning "behavior and manner of a fop" is from 1690s; meaning "foppish attire" is from 1711.

Forced complaisance is foppery; and affected easiness is ridiculous.

Theron looked at his interrogator with a frown of disdain for his foppery.

They despised wealth just as other nations despise effeminacy and foppery.

So that, were we to try our best at foppery, we could not now succeed.

So foppery and foolery are tolerated from habit and intimacy.

It is the triumph of insignificance, the apotheosis of foppery and folly.

In seeking to avoid slovenliness readers often fall into foppery.

In this respect the eighteenth century, for all its foppery, was ahead of ours.

He hated show and foppery, and a weakness in that direction often got reproof.

The falsity that proceeds from ignorance does not offend me, but the foppery of it.