Example Sentences
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The club’s artistic director, James Pearson, my next pianist, turns out to be a broad-shouldered man with some Dickensian foppishness and a radically unleashed presence on the piano.
From New York Times ● Jul. 27, 2022
Somewhere outside this room is the real world, where finery and foppishness won’t save these characters from an uprising of the plebs.
From New York Times ● Feb. 21, 2022
The staggeringly good, utterly OTT Flamboyant, meanwhile, is a celebration of foppishness.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 12, 2019
The foppishness of aspects of the Roy Evans era came out in their tendency towards the floppy-on-top public school 'do.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 25, 2010
He had inordinate vanity, and there are many stories about his foppishness.
From Youth and the Bright Medusa by Cather, Willa Sibert
