foppish
IPA: foʊpɪʃ
adjective
- Like a fop, a man overly concerned with his appearance; vain and showy.
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Examples of "foppish" in Sentences
- Certainly NOT the foppish caricature that the GOP faithful paint.
- But now the august Wall Street Journal officially declares that collar-poppin is not "foppish" a bit!
- His whole dress and air was not what could properly be called foppish, it was rather what at that time was called "rakish."
- Similarly, Frederick Law Olmsted noted that many blacks in Richmond, Virginia, on a Sunday were “dressed with foppish extravagence, and many in the latest style of fashion.”
- The word foppish has appeared in 14 New York Times articles in the past year, including on Aug. 17 in the restaurant review "Now Appearing in Chicago, a Restaurant in Footlights," by Sam Sifton:
- Rumors have been swirling for years about the dignified perpetual bachelor, but TMZ can now confirm that sources close to sources have seen the foppish Prez "bending over a page when he's done with his reading." more
- (he had held a much-envied shore appointment at the Ministry of Marine for a year preceding his retreat from his profession and from Europe), he possessed a latent warmth of feeling and a capacity for sympathy which were concealed by a sort of haughty, arbitrary indifference of manner arising from his early training; and by a something an enemy might have called foppish, in his aspect -- like a distorted echo of past elegance.
- Fastidious, clever, slightly skeptical, accustomed to the best society (he had held a much-envied shore appointment at the Ministry of Marine for a year preceding his retreat from his profession and from Europe), he possessed a latent warmth of feeling and a capacity for sympathy which were concealed by a sort of haughty, arbitrary indifference of manner arising from his early training; and by a something an enemy might have called foppish, in his aspect -- like a distorted echo of past elegance.
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