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foppery
  1. The dress or actions of a fop
  2. Stupidity
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Theron looked at his interrogator with a frown of disdain for his foppery.”
      “He hated show and foppery, and a weakness in that direction often got reproof.”
      “The falsity that proceeds from ignorance does not offend me, but the foppery of it.”
foppishness
  1. The characteristic or quality of being foppish.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “As we watched, we were mainly struck by the self-involved foppishness of all the central characters.”
      “Despite what you may have heard, dandyism is the antithesis of foppishness.”
      “His modern-day company is a shaft of light into a world he once straddled with an unprecedented combination of foppishness and fear tactics.”
fop
  1. A vain man; a dandy.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “When we met, I thought Sam was a ridiculous fop, and he considered me an unsophisticated oaf.”
      “Any man so concerned and fussy about the details of a tooth-pick case is definitely a fop, a dandy.”
      “It's like saying that no Scots actor can do a Wilde, or a Coward, or a Restoration fop.”
fopling
  1. (archaic) A petty fop.
  2. Examples:
    1. “This was a peruke of his, famous in the part of Sir Fopling Flutter.”
foppism
  1. foppish behaviour
foppishnesses
foplings
  1. plural of fopling
fopperies
  1. plural of foppery
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  3. Examples:
    1. “I visited all the famous ones, and it would fill a volume to tell you the fopperies that's said of them.”
      “He plays the game with the gloves off, he strips bare all the fopperies and artificialities of the world.”
      “George Osborne lying yonder, all his fopperies ended, with a bullet through his heart?”
fops
  1. plural of fop
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  3. Examples:
    1. “It grieves me deeply that we Americans should take as our classic a book that is no more than a lengthy description of the doings of fops.”
      “It's coming alright but not in the way those light-headed, self-indulgent fops think.”
      “The fops and dandies had no interest in war and concentrated instead on their seraglios.”
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