foppish

[ fop-ish ]

adjective

resembling or befitting a fop; excessively refined and fastidious in taste and manner.

Origin of foppish

First recorded in 1595–1605; fop + -ish¹

Hay was the foppish “smiling emissary” whose conversational skills could make petitioners forget they came to see the president.
The Battle over President Lincoln’s Legacy | Tom LeClair | February 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
Or that “macaronis” were foppish, sexually ambiguous males in the 1760s and 1770s?
Queer Style A History of Fashion at FIT in New York | Peter Davis | September 14, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
Once he got his foppish foot in the door, he celebrated by unleashing the full majesty of his pent-up fashion exhibitionism.
Benjamin Disraeli: Dead Cool | Simon Doonan | September 30, 2009 | THE DAILY BEAST
Had I not known him, I should have seen in the scrupulous part in his hair a suggestion of the foppish.
The Soldier of the Valley | Nelson Lloyd
He was only thirty feet behind Peter Niburg when that foppish gentleman reached the corner.
Long Live the King | Mary Roberts Rinehart

He turned and stared after Mamise and noted the way she went, with the foppish stranger carrying the heavy baggage.
The Cup of Fury | Rupert Hughes
And it must be admitted that those mere foppish, inane nothings did produce a seeming of difference.
The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig | David Graham Phillips
There is nothing finical or foppish about the conventions which Mr. Harcourt undertakes to codify and explain.
Ben's Nugget | Horatio, Jr. Alger

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