How to Use foppish in a Sentence

foppish

adjective

• The coat plus the beard lent a bear-like aspect to his style, which was equally foppish and preppy.
  — Vogue, 30 Oct. 2021
• The generous, foppish satin bows draped floppily across the toes will cheer up even the most lugubrious shoe fetishist.
  — Lauren Ingram, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2017
• To mark the occasion, Lubanski gave Frazee a foppish stuffed bunny with satin, pink paws.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 9 Mar. 2017
• To mark the occasion, Lubanski gave Frazee a foppish stuffed bunny with satin, pink paws.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 9 Mar. 2017
• Onscreen, the Duke, played by Richard Roxburgh, is a bit of a foppish joke and his attempts to steal Satine are played largely for comedy.
  — Suzy Evans, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 July 2019
• Onstage, the band dressed in the sort of foppish outfits favored by several other white acts of the mid-1960s: knee-high socks, short ties, floppy collars.
  — Clay Risen, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2022
• The gesture seems to carry both a foppish sophistication and a Prussian coldness.
  — Austin Grossman, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2019
• Weekday lunches are equally buzzy; stately but relaxed affairs with a mix of MPs, moguls, foppish eccentrics, and women in the latest Roksanda dresses.
  — Steven Stolman, Town & Country, 24 Oct. 2016
• Gwen Loeb is wonderfully funny as a foppish courtier and as rough-mannered country worker Audrey, with whom Touchstone strikes up a romance.
  — Sam Hurwitt, The Mercury News, 10 July 2019
• Moore can lay on Wimsey’s fussy, foppish mannerisms awfully thick as well, like a dandy in an old drawing room comedy rather than a gentleman of true substance.
  — Misha Berson, The Seattle Times, 2 June 2017
• Nearby a half-length painting of Saint Sebastian reimagines its subject as an almost foppish youth with auburn hair and a single arrow piercing his smooth torso.
  — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 24 June 2021
• The protagonist, one Reginald Bunthorne, is a foppish aesthete who’s gained star status but is frustrated in his attempts to win the heart of the titular milkmaid Patience.
  — Randy McMullen, The Mercury News, 8 Feb. 2017
• But gardening isn't just for middle-aged women or foppish 17th-century French kings anymore.
  — Geoff Kirsch, Alaska Dispatch News, 29 July 2017
• For instance, a manly man of 18th-century France would be considered fairly foppish today.
  — Jennifer Wright, Harper's BAZAAR, 29 Aug. 2019
• Teddy’s unpromising fifth cousin—was written off as a rich, foppish lightweight with little more than an aristocratic accent and rich parents.
  — Edward Kosner, WSJ, 25 Sep. 2018
• The plentiful mime is both broad and exact, capable of showing — without sound — how Harlequin’s foppish rival sings poorly.
  — Brian Seibert, New York Times, 5 June 2018
• Her characters are played large – very large in some cases, especially Cal Harris as a deliciously foppish Prince John.
  — David Lyman, Cincinnati.com, 29 July 2017
• Inside the train, a foppish, gender-bending revolution is brewing.
  — Michael Upchurch, The Seattle Times, 4 July 2017
• The monocle’s first two lives, as foppish accessory and evildoer’s adornment, have persisted into the present.
  — Austin Grossman, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2019
• Eventually, foppish men hawking ideas rather than wares would lay the same claim to the American individualist spirit: the adman as noble as the oilman, the programmer no different from the prospector.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 19 Mar. 2020
• Making this pronouncement is officious Lord Nooth, the governor of the area's spiffy bronze age town, who's played by Hiddleston like a foppish, money-hungry Roman provincial functionary with a truly eccentric accent.
  — Kenneth Turan, latimes.com, 15 Feb. 2018
• Atkins perfectly catches Spenser’s breezy voice and Parker’s knack for creating vivid characters — notably a foppish, condescending British detective who is also hunting the paintings.
  — Adam Woog, The Seattle Times, 17 Apr. 2018
• As foppish Andrew Aguecheek, Jacob Dresch is particularly funny with his physicality.
  — Matthew J. Palm, OrlandoSentinel.com, 8 Mar. 2018

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