foppery

• For absolute contempt is a quality of youth and ignorance—a foppery which a wise man rejects, and he rejected it accordingly. —  Charles Lamb
• The disposition to derision and insult, is awakened by the softness of foppery, the swell of insolence, the liveliness of levity, or the solemnity of grandeur; by the sprightly trip, the stately stalk, the formal strut, and the lofty mien; by gestures intended to catch the eye, and by looks elaborately formed as evidences of importance Footnote 1: In the Spectator , No. —  Life Of Johnson, Vol. 1
• But it is a good expression of that huge contempt for the foppery of high-flown sentiment which, as is not uncommon with Johnson, passes into something which would be cynical if it were not half-humorous. —  Samuel Johnson
• A girl of his own age, whose heart-depths had not been sounded by experience, would have fallen in love with the foppery (or else despised it—which is often the same thing); but Mrs. Austen, mature in years, with a decade of London “seasons” behind her, having met every possible kind of man Europe had to offer, discovered that the world did not know Ben Disraeli at all. —  Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 5
• The question we point at is not this supposed foppery--was it such or not? —  The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1

Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms

Used in the Same Context