foppish

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He was led in this way to let distinction and ceremony fall to the ground as useless and foppish, and could not even on premeditation, it is said, act for a moment the part of a King either at parliament or council, either in words or gesture.

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  1. adjective Of, relating to, or characteristic of a fop; dandified.

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  • She was tapping some foppish-looking gentleman in lavender on the arm and drawing to herself all the foolery of flattery and mindless gallantry. —  Mary Balogh - Silent Melody
  • Both were dissipated and foppish-looking, and one, whom Cassidy addressed as Quint, had a lurking air of cruelty about him that was distinctly unpleasant. —  Astounding, January 1943
  • He knew it too well, he had seen it in reality, the type of German Pharisee, foppish, impeccable, and hard, bowing down before its own image, the divinity to which it has no scruple about sacrificing others. —  Jean-Christophe, Vol. I
  • He was sentimental and dry, naive and foppish: his labored verses affected a cavalier carelessness. —  Jean-Christophe, Vol. I
  • He looked like a foppish frat boy at an Ivy League smoker. —  The Bone Collector
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