As if one wanted thanks for being good to one's own sister," said Ned, thrusting the delicate little ruby brooch on his mother to be taken care of till his days of foppery should set in, and he would need it for cap and plume.
Reproof should not exhaust its power upon petty failings; let it watch diligently against the incursion of vice, and leave foppery and futility to die of themselves.
In this Play I gave myself the Part of Sir Novelty, which was thought a good Portrait of the Foppery then in fashion.
Melantha is as finish'd an Impertinent as ever flutter'd in a Drawing-Room, and seems to contain the most compleat System of Female Foppery that could possibly be crowded into the tortured Form of a Fine Lady.
We pardon foppery because of its insignificance" and on the same ground we might pardon the foppery of Titles.
The thing is perfectly harmless in itself, but it marks a sort of foppery in the human character, which degrades it.
How strange it is, Sir, that this man, not contented with the large share of foppery and nonsense which he has from nature, should think proper to affect yet more!
To make room for these worse than needless additions, many of the most striking passages in the real play have been omitted by the fopperyand ignorance of the prompt-book critics.
Whether from a consciousness of this likeness, and a desire to hide it as far as possible, or from a sort of conceited foppery not uncommon, the dress of this small man was as scrupulously elegant as the taste of that day would admit.
But a man still above all things perfectly young and natural, professing that foppery which follows the fashions, and not that sillier and more demoralising foppery which defies them.
Plumed cavaliers were there, who had followed the standards of Conde or Turenne, and who, even in the depths of a wilderness, scorned to lay aside the martial foppery which bedecked the camp and court of Louis the Magnificent.
The newcomer was a very handsome man, of slender and graceful proportions, tall and elegant, and dressed in the extreme of fashion, yet with a taste that robbed foppery itself of any appearance of absurdity in his case.
And I am sick of crowds and foppery and the follies of the city.
There are better things in life than fopperyand idle dissipation.
Anne had not the force of character to impose her will upon her subjects; and extravagance, frivolity, and foppery flourished amazingly.
I would have you avoid equally the foppery of the court beaux and the swaggering self-importance of those they call the bully beaux, with whom you are certain to make acquaintance ere long.
The detection of the beggerly Art of Alcumistry, &, The foppery of foolish cousoning Charmes.
Some satanic whim or malicious foppery made Charley stare him blankly in the face.
Stately and cold and polite, she had fairly met his ceaseless foppery and preciseness of manner.
It was throwing away his one chance; it was foppery on the scaffold--an incorrigible affectation or a relentless purpose.
She was much older than Disraeli--she must have been in order to comprehend that the young man's frivolity was pretense, and his foppery affectation.
He had said in the morning, that Macaulay's History of St. Kilda, was very well written, except some foppery about liberty and slavery.
A Shakespeare, or a Milton (unless the first editions), it were mere foppery to trick out in gay apparel.
They are the very kickshaws and foppery of friendship.
Let not the sound of shallow fopperyenter My sober house.
Foppery takes growth again, though it is somewhat tender; struggles for life, but somehow or other acquires strength in the struggle.
From that day I took a disgust to yellows, any thing glaring--abhorred my orange-plush: and I do not believe I had any symptom of foppery about me for three years after that memorable time.
By this kind of art, Mr. Henry Augustus Tippetson rendered himself tolerable in spite of his foppery and exquisite affectations.
So foppery and foolery are tolerated from habit and intimacy.
He was remarkable for foppery in his dress, and particularly for wearing a bunch of sixteen strings at the knees of his breeches.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "foppery" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
