foppish
Example Sentences
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As a boy, I must have intuited that what was foppish about Lynde, Reilly and Taylor coursed through me, too, even without the words to explain why.
From New York Times • Jun. 19, 2024
Hoult and Cage sell the toxic odd-couple dynamic well, but a sturdier story is required to fully support their performances, especially Cage’s operatic Dracula, who delights in terrorizing his foppish familiar.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2023
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
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
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.
