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Recent Examples of foppish
The owner, clad in a foppish costume, is throwing a fancy party filled with people who don’t feel obliged to follow the evacuation orders of some paramilitary stooge.
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Noel Murray, Vulture, 13 Aug. 2025
Her husband, the filmmaker, wears a foppish silk scarf.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 19 Mar. 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
London’s Harry Styles event saw 12 foppish men in feather boas, Gucci flares, and floppy haircuts vying for the prize.
—Raven Smith, Vogue, 19 Nov. 2024
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Noel Murray, Vulture, 13 Aug. 2025
Her husband, the filmmaker, wears a foppish silk scarf.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 19 Mar. 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
London’s Harry Styles event saw 12 foppish men in feather boas, Gucci flares, and floppy haircuts vying for the prize.
—Raven Smith, Vogue, 19 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for foppish
Adjective
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For the magazine’s seventy-fifth anniversary, in 2000, the dog-loving portraitist William Wegman dressed up one of his Weimaraners as Eustace Tilley, our dandyish mascot, originally drawn by Rea Irvin.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
15 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Only on Industry can listening to one’s conscience come off as prissy and weak.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
23 Feb. 2026
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Despite its heavy premise, the movie also has absurdities, among them Conan O’Brien as a judgmental, prissy therapist.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
9 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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The duet is unabashedly sappy, its lyrics full of period-perfect, flowery Medieval revivalism tropes.—
Rebecca Alter,
Vulture,
31 Jan. 2026
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That’s sappy but sweet stuff, arriving at a time when so much of the human project seems bent toward cruelty and annihilation.—
Richard Lawson,
HollywoodReporter,
27 Jan. 2026
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“Foppish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foppish. Accessed 3 Mar. 2026.
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