The foppish Malignon thought the project rather stupid, still he condescended to take some interest in it, and promised to bring a comic singer with whom he was acquainted.
I have seen you with a shiny hat, a foppish neckerchief.
Not even in Suetonius is there any tale more ghastly than that told by Seneca of the Roman knight whose son had paid with his life for a foppish elegance which irritated the tyrant.
Jerome, the foppish procurator of the great lady was a dangerous and suspected person,(520) and not always without good cause.
For my part," quoth a foppish young man, "I have thoughts in my mind should fill many volumes.
As he appeared there, handsome, foppish and smiling, 'twas no wonder that the countryside had nicknamed him Beau Brocade.
Would the foppish young dandy, the handsome, light-hearted gallant, ever gladden the eyes of honest John again?
Plain to see, beneath this man's foppish exterior and affected cynicism, dwelt powerful purposes and keen intelligence.
At the last moment Van Slyke waved a foppishhand at her, and smirked adieux.
It had occurred to me that if I preserved silence and gave no sign, I might perhaps discover the identity of this foppish young man.
Certainly his disguise was good, for I never should have imagined it from his foppish exterior and mincing manners.
And he proceeded, like a true buck, to fumble with the Mechlin of his fall and dust his stockings in an airy foppish manner so graceful that I swear no other could have done the same so well.
Patty's honest gaze encountered the appraising glint in the coot grey eyes of the foppish scape-grace before her.
My foppish friend," spoke up The Senator, "the reputation of Grizzley Bob says so.
One or two of the elder ladies took chairs, but the greater part walked, the gentlemen with hats under their arms and canes dangling from their wrists, the more foppish with muffs.
Is he a small, foppish man, full of monstrous airs and graces, and--and rather underbred?
She advanced up the aisle leaning heavily upon the arm of a smartly-dressed man, who wore a monocle with foppish air.
Upon a near approach, he immediately dismounted, and advanced towards us, bowing in a most foppish manner, while his attendant followed him on foot with an enormous violin, which he immediately handed to him.
Everybody seems to think I can't take care of myself with thisfoppish molly and his fancy swordsmanship.
With a gesture so easy as almost to be slow motion, he tossed it into the face of the foppish officer.
Which is certainly a most foppish and absurd way of Proceeding, and merits nothing but Scandal, Derision, nay Hell itself.
Had I travelled from Blois, and done what I deemed the most honourable deed of my life, to be laughed at for my pains by a foppish young jackanapes of his Eminence's guards?
Upon near approach he immediately dismounted and advanced toward us, bowing in a most foppish manner, while his attendant followed him on foot with an enormous violin, which he immediately handed to him.
By these enactments, foppish modes of dressing the hair was discountenanced or forbidden, not less than the use of gaudy clothes and bright arms.
Judges were by no means unanimous with regard to the adoption of wigs, some of them obstinately refusing to disfigure themselves with false tresses, and others displaying a foppish delight in the new decoration.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "foppish" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: conceited; dandy; mincing; rakish; vain
