Examples of foppish in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The coat plus the beard lent a bear-like aspect to his style, which was equally foppish and preppy. — Vogue, 30 Oct. 2021 Nearby a half-length painting of Saint Sebastian reimagines its subject as an almost foppish youth with auburn hair and a single arrow piercing his smooth torso. — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 24 June 2021 Eventually, foppish men hawking ideas rather than wares would lay the same claim to the American individualist spirit: the adman as noble as the oilman, the programmer no different from the prospector. — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 19 Mar. 2020 The monocle’s first two lives, as foppish accessory and evildoer’s adornment, have persisted into the present. — Austin Grossman, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2019 The gesture seems to carry both a foppish sophistication and a Prussian coldness. — Austin Grossman, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2019 For instance, a manly man of 18th-century France would be considered fairly foppish today. — Jennifer Wright, Harper's BAZAAR, 29 Aug. 2019 Watching a realistic wildebeest stampede, or Uncle Scar (Chiwetel Ejiofordoes the voice, less insidiously foppish than Jeremy Irons) crush the hopes and dreams of young Simba in lifelike scene after scene — these aren’t upgrades. — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 10 July 2019 Gwen Loeb is wonderfully funny as a foppish courtier and as rough-mannered country worker Audrey, with whom Touchstone strikes up a romance. — Sam Hurwitt, The Mercury News, 10 July 2019 See More

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