foppish

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Recent Examples of foppish Her husband, the filmmaker, wears a foppish silk scarf. Jesse Green, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2025 Among his electronic competitors was Thomas, a foppish, rail-thin twentysomething with a penchant for provocatively unbuttoned silk shirts, and who spoke nonchalantly about Gaussian functions, Faraday’s law of induction, and something called the hysteresis curve. Matthew Sherrill, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025 And then that version of Nosferatu fell apart, and Bill was cast in The Northman as this sort of foppish cousin of Alexander Skarsgård. Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 14 Jan. 2025 Soon, he’s contracted by the foppish Harry Van Buren (Joe Alwyn) to build a library for his father, the local land magnate Harrison Van Buren (Guy Pearce). David Sims, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for foppish
Recent Examples of Synonyms for foppish
Adjective
  • Albee's 1962 play won a Tony Award, and would have also won a Pulitzer Prize for drama, if the prissy trustees of Columbia University hadn't overruled the jury.
    Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Some of that’s changing times, some of that is because a not-insignificant portion of W.A.S.P. fans are prissy suburbanites themselves.
    Andy O'Connor, SPIN, 13 Jan. 2023
Adjective
  • This has reflected neither sappy altruism nor cynical neoimperialism but an understanding that in the modern world, economics and security need to be handled at something beyond the national level.
    Gideon Rose, Foreign Affairs, 8 Mar. 2025
  • Into a routine casting call one afternoon walks Michael, an Ohio ice-cream truck driver effusing sappy memories of watching the series every morning with his family over bacon and eggs.
    Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019

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“Foppish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foppish. Accessed 5 May. 2025.

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