Example Sentences

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Albee caricatures the foppishly professorial Fam as sniveling, ingratiating and insincere.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 7, 2022

And there’s fun to be had with these performances, including Hugh Grant playing a foppishly pretentious academic with impeccable condescension.

From New York Times • Dec. 30, 2020

Ivers would push the punks’ buttons, pricking their self-seriousness by flapping around foppishly in wigs and tuxedos.

From The Guardian • Dec. 27, 2019

In contravention of stereotypes about stiff-upper-lipped Brits, Oliver is more foppishly energetic a host than either Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert.

From Slate • Jul. 29, 2014

“So this is the rascal we’d been talking about,” the principal, a tall, wiry man, foppishly dressed in a black pin-striped suit, said to my mother as we entered.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane