fop

Example Sentences

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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

A tracker and his entourage help a fop try to beat Lewis & Clark to the Pacific Ocean in 1804.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2020

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