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foppish

[ UK /fˈɒpɪʃ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. affecting extreme elegance in dress and manner

How To Use foppish In A Sentence

  • Men aren't afraid to be soft, girly and foppish and celebrate the inner life.
  • ‘You pitiful, foppish, berk,’ I irritably retorted, in my head.
  • I don't think he's going to be as eccentric and as foppish as some of his incarnations.
  • For all his foppish tendencies, Falworth was an amiable gentleman and an unexceptionable partner. WHOLE SECRET LOVE
  • And, when I'd finished, yawn, deliberate, foppish, showing an ice-cream-pink mouth and curled pink tongue. ON CATS
  • The wit, light approach and mastery of touch, scale and color balance the figurines’ rather foppish preciosity.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • He is foppish and vain (he writes a very flattering line in autobiographies) - but also dashed fanciable.
  • `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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