How To Use Foppish In A Sentence
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Around the harbour wall, foppish types in flannels and boaters sat with their lady companions on picnic rugs, applauding gently.
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“Youth and comeliness were gone, but the foppishness remained, and the red-faced man, with false teeth and the voice of a worn-out actor had his scanty grey hair curled.”
Louisa May Alcott
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The foppishness of aspects of the Roy Evans era came out in their tendency towards the floppy-on-top public school 'do.
Five things we learned from the Premier League this weekend
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See him now, his face lit up with delight at the parade advancing on every side, of cart and carriage, delivery truck and spacious brougham, of ladies in their colorful crinoline and dandies dandier than the foppish fop astride boneshaker bicycles weaving between the vendors’ carts as expertly as rodeo barrel racers.
The Curse of the Wendigo
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Brooks was clearly amused by her friend's dandified appearance, bone-thin in foppish drag, complete with masculine-cut jacket, high collar, monocle, bobbed hair and imperiously arched eyebrows.
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As Rodrigo Borgia he is comical in his self-regard and foppishness, ordering villages to be stripped of chattals or his enemies slayed before sinking back weakly into his papal throne, fingering the edges of his golden crown mumbling that God is verily moving within him.
The Borgias: Grace Dent's TV OD
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Even when the film flirts with shades of grey - such as the alternate visions of heroism offered by drunken knife-wielder Jim Bowie and his foppish rival William Travis - Hancock's adherence to rousing, simplistic conventions turns his story into laborious mush.
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He was clad in what, though it was not distinctly a seaman's habit, yet suggested the ways of the sea, and there was a kind of foppishness about his rig which set me wondering, for I was used to a slovenly squalor or a slovenly bravery in the sailors I knew most of.
Marjorie
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He was an unimpressive figure physically, weedy and foppish, and slightly lame since birth, but when he addressed the Members of Parliament he made them flinch with his phrases of masterful contempt.
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“The opening bid, gentlemen, is ten pounds,” the auctioneer announced, and almost instantly, a young buck with a very foppish knot in his neckcloth and shiny new boots tipped his hat.
The Year of Living Scandalously
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Her foppish companion, along for the ride, seems both amused and distant in sunglasses, scarf and blazer, chin resting on his hand.
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He had foppish hair and a patch of fur on his chin, looking rather like a he-goat, including the smile on his face.
Deadly
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Fastidious, clever, slightly skeptical, accustomed to the best society (he had held a much-envied shore appointment at the Ministry of Marine for a year preceding his retreat from his profession and from Europe), he possessed a latent warmth of feeling and a capacity for sympathy which were concealed by a sort of haughty, arbitrary indifference of manner arising from his early training; and by a something an enemy might have called foppish, in his aspect -- like a distorted echo of past elegance.
Youth And Two Other Stories
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They weren't the pot-bellied kind, more the underwear-model kind; tanned, perspiring, incongruously foppish hair, stubbled, one of them hanging off the end of a smoke, in dark blue cargo pants, boots, tool belts and nothing else.
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To effect this he adopts the role of a foppish member of English society to deter suspicion, while his real, heroic identity is that of the ‘Scarlet Pimpernel’, daredevil adventurer.
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They are wonderfully ebullient and foppish monuments dating from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, with domes swelling out of all proportion to the base, each like a watermelon attempting to balance on a fig.
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Clooney is superb as the vain, foppish McGill, scouring the stores for his preferred brand of hair pomade even as the police manhunt draws ever closer.
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Similarly, Frederick Law Olmsted noted that many blacks in Richmond, Virginia, on a Sunday were “dressed with foppish extravagence, and many in the latest style of fashion.”
A Renegade History of the United States
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He looks kind of like a foppish dandy … kind of aristocratic from the waist up.
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Despite what you may have heard, dandyism is the antithesis of foppishness.
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He shocked Boston with his foppish ‘velvet waistcoats of vivid green or brilliant crimson’ and his lowbred way of breezily combing his long tresses during a dinner given in his honor.
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Lets stop this foppishness, recognize the scale of the problem at hand, and realize its JUST A COMIC.
So there.
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Rumors have been swirling for years about the dignified perpetual bachelor, but TMZ can now confirm that sources close to sources have seen the foppish Prez "bending over a page when he's done with his reading." more
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Long before then, Heinrich had noticed his younger sibling's foppish ways, recommending the traditional ‘sleep cure’, and even offering the address of a bordello where the therapy could be obtained at modest cost.
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The word foppish has appeared in 14 New York Times articles in the past year, including on Aug. 17 in the restaurant review "Now Appearing in Chicago, a Restaurant in Footlights," by Sam Sifton:
NYT > Home Page
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This play displays little of the fruity malice or camp of that genre, even if Mark Gatiss' absurd turkey cock of a Captain Brazen has the boo-hiss foppishness of a pantomime villain.
The Recruiting Officer - review
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Coming across the name Sitarissimo among my press releases, I immediately envisioned droning sitar accompanied by a foppish dandy in a powdered wig and ruffle-cuffs, tooting on a piccolo.
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But now the august Wall Street Journal officially declares that collar-poppin is not "foppish" a bit!
Gawker: Valleywag
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His whole dress and air was not what could properly be called foppish, it was rather what at that time was called "rakish.
Lucretia — Complete
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Emma decided she preferred the American wayless foppishness, more volume.
Gold of Kings
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‘You pitiful, foppish, berk,’ I irritably retorted, in my head.
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I don't think he's going to be as eccentric and as foppish as some of his incarnations.
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For all his foppish tendencies, Falworth was an amiable gentleman and an unexceptionable partner.
WHOLE SECRET LOVE
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And, when I'd finished, yawn, deliberate, foppish, showing an ice-cream-pink mouth and curled pink tongue.
ON CATS
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The wit, light approach and mastery of touch, scale and color balance the figurines’ rather foppish preciosity.
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Its foppishness, the daily lazy routine of not beginning the day till late into the afternoon; the emphasis placed on poets and poetry and other cultural activities make for interesting reading.
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Emerson's lip curled at the sight of this "foppishness"; he refused to wear a hat and usually went about with his sleeves rolled to the elbows and his shirt collar open.
The Mummy Case
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He is foppish and vain (he writes a very flattering line in autobiographies) - but also dashed fanciable.
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`I didn't like to say in front of that foppish actor fellow, but my Lord Rakewell's first victim was a player.
THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
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I simply see further evidence, if any were needed, that the man is a foppish dandiprat.
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I mean, jeez, if I'm going to wallow in obvious hipsterism, I want it to at least be fun and well-executed, not ironically arch, foppish and bloodless.
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As we watched, we were mainly struck by the self-involved foppishness of all the central characters.
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(he had held a much-envied shore appointment at the Ministry of Marine for a year preceding his retreat from his profession and from Europe), he possessed a latent warmth of feeling and a capacity for sympathy which were concealed by a sort of haughty, arbitrary indifference of manner arising from his early training; and by a something an enemy might have called foppish, in his aspect -- like a distorted echo of past elegance.
The End of the Tether
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Men aren't afraid to be soft, girly and foppish and celebrate the inner life.
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His foppishness was the foppishness of his youth, and to the last he wandered through Paris clad in the splendour of the days when young men were "lions," and when the quarrel between classicism and romanticism was vital.
The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1
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For all his foppish tendencies, Falworth was an amiable gentleman and an unexceptionable partner.
WHOLE SECRET LOVE
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He was famous for a wardrobe that reflected every foppish trend of the day, and boasted that he knew which tweeds to choose to enable
Bret Harte (1836-1902)
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By 1720 Restoration foppishness had given place to the dignity of the first Georgian period.
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Men aren't afraid to be soft, girly and foppish and celebrate the inner life.
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The one who killed Emma was herself, her illusion and her heart to pursue a foppish life.
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His modern-day company is a shaft of light into a world he once straddled with an unprecedented combination of foppishness and fear tactics.
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Certainly NOT the foppish caricature that the GOP faithful paint.
Barbour: Obama, Congress 'the most liberal' ever
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He's foppish, priapic and urbane, making the word 'lacuna' sound like a decadent holiday destination.
Evening Standard - Home
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Besides that, I'm given to foppishness and dandyism and always feel like I'm showing off when I dress up.
Archive 2008-03-01
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A hospital cafeteria's mission statement, however, can put that of the most foppish of five-star beaneries to shame.
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He rolled his eyes at himself as he thought of how much he had sounded like a foppish dandy worrying over his appearance.
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Even in the first book it becomes clear that Wimsey's apparent foppishness is largely an act to disarm others (and, to some extent, tame himself).
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