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How to use foppish in a sentence

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A hospital cafeteria's mission statement, however, can put that of the most foppish of five-star beaneries to shame.
Her foppish companion, along for the ride, seems both amused and distant in sunglasses, scarf and blazer, chin resting on his hand.
He rolled his eyes at himself as he thought of how much he had sounded like a foppish dandy worrying over his appearance.
I don't think he's going to be as eccentric and as foppish as some of his incarnations.
I simply see further evidence, if any were needed, that the man is a foppish dandiprat.
Around the harbour wall, foppish types in flannels and boaters sat with their lady companions on picnic rugs, applauding gently.
Lord Peter, that foppish, high-bred but utterly moral aristocrat, is in the background for much of this book.
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.
Elaborate metaphors, affected mannerisms, and foppish dress led to his being shouted down.
Lord Exbury's foppish elder son, his self-absorbed daughter, a local toad-eater, and a peasant couple are examples of the breadth of the play's dramatis personae.
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.
Mr Kalam, a former government scientist with a foppish fringe, was unusually popular, mainly because he was not a politician.
Gone was the foppish garb of the first few days to be replaced by the keen legal eagle look.
When punk becomes foppish and disco quite epic, you've entered the world of the dithyrambith-ic.
Once he got his foppish foot in the door, he celebrated by unleashing the full majesty of his pent-up fashion exhibitionism.
Perhaps the most obvious was Matt Smith's Doctor Who, with singer Brendon Urie wearing braces, a bowtie and a foppish side parting.
Gary Avis is the bovine Lorenzo, Kitri's father, fatally slow on the uptake and always on the wrong foot, and Bennet Gartside is the absurd and foppish Gamache.
The Who embody that classic British pop cult paradox: foppish violence.
But they have plenty to recommend, not least a frontman who has pretensions towards the foppish literacy of a Jarvis and musicians striving to frame those lyrics in a suitably epic context.
From an early age he adopted a foppish, bohemian style, and in due course, having thrown over his studies in engineering and the possibility of a legal career, he became a man of letters.
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Evidently, the foppish Balt Haer had no illusions about the spot his father had got the family corporation into.
There is nothing finical or foppish about the conventions which Mr. Harcourt undertakes to codify and explain.
Next, the Inspector rounds on elder daughter Sheila and her foppish fiance Gerald.
He looked at the grey, carefully curled hair, yellow white visage, and slim, somewhat foppish figure.
Though not foppish, he was scrupulous to a degree about his dress.
There isn't one I don't despise for his sickening, foppish, womanish airs.
He was fair and foppish, very stout, and as heavy in mind as in body.
One, a native interpreter, was foppish in garment and manner.
His dilettantish manner was gone for good, as was also his foppish beard.
And after that the world grew into a young man and became foppish.
The others were no less ragged and unkempt, even the foppish Will Scarlet being so badly run down at the heel that the court ladies would hardly have had speech with him.
He had evidently been in his bed when the alarm had broken out, for he wore a foppish, embroidered nightshirt, and his bare feet projected from his trousers.
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