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
The staggeringly good, utterly OTT Flamboyant, meanwhile, is a celebration of foppishness.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 12, 2019
One delightful detail about William Wilde to emerge here is that, in contrast to Oscar’s foppishness, Sir William was notably disheveled and dirty, unkempt.
From New York Times ● Dec. 7, 2018
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
About the whole man there was an air somehow of full-bloomed foppishness gone to tassel—as though having been a dandy once, he was now merely neat and precise in his way of dress.
From The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)
