The captive Abbot's features and manners exhibited a whimsical mixture of offended pride, and deranged foppery and bodily terror. |
Besides, a man who has no foppery at twenty will be a slatternly, dirty-collar, unbrushed-coat man at forty. |
A dandified man is always ridiculous, but when he adds to his foppery, effemination, he then becomes contemptible. |
He was a tall, baroquely mustachioed man with a strangely swanlake gait, whose celebrity, odd hats, and denim foppery kept him a focus of street attention in San Francisco's North Beach, his urban habitat. |
In this respect the eighteenth century, for all its foppery, was ahead of ours. |
In seeking to avoid slovenliness readers often fall into foppery. |