How to Use foppish in a Sentence

foppish

adjective
  • The coat plus the beard lent a bear-like aspect to his style, which was equally foppish and preppy.
    — Vogue, 30 Oct. 2021
  • The generous, foppish satin bows draped floppily across the toes will cheer up even the most lugubrious shoe fetishist.
    — Lauren Ingram, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2017
  • Inside the train, a foppish, gender-bending revolution is brewing.
    — Michael Upchurch, The Seattle Times, 4 July 2017
  • The gesture seems to carry both a foppish sophistication and a Prussian coldness.
    — Austin Grossman, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2019
  • Teddy’s unpromising fifth cousin—was written off as a rich, foppish lightweight with little more than an aristocratic accent and rich parents.
    — Edward Kosner, WSJ, 25 Sep. 2018
  • Keith Jameson has the keen character tenor and bit of fussiness for the foppish Frenchman Triquet.
    — Dallas News, 2 Apr. 2022
  • But gardening isn't just for middle-aged women or foppish 17th-century French kings anymore.
    — Geoff Kirsch, Alaska Dispatch News, 29 July 2017
  • Her mother thinks otherwise, and wants to see her daughter marry a foppish wit that panders to her own intellectual pretensions.
    — cleveland, 8 July 2022
  • Moore can lay on Wimsey’s fussy, foppish mannerisms awfully thick as well, like a dandy in an old drawing room comedy rather than a gentleman of true substance.
    — Misha Berson, The Seattle Times, 2 June 2017
  • For instance, a manly man of 18th-century France would be considered fairly foppish today.
    — Jennifer Wright, Harper's BAZAAR, 29 Aug. 2019
  • The monocle’s first two lives, as foppish accessory and evildoer’s adornment, have persisted into the present.
    — Austin Grossman, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2019
  • The plentiful mime is both broad and exact, capable of showing — without sound — how Harlequin’s foppish rival sings poorly.
    — Brian Seibert, New York Times, 5 June 2018
  • The owner, clad in a foppish costume, is throwing a fancy party filled with people who don’t feel obliged to follow the evacuation orders of some paramilitary stooge.
    — Noel Murray, Vulture, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Onscreen, the Duke, played by Richard Roxburgh, is a bit of a foppish joke and his attempts to steal Satine are played largely for comedy.
    — Suzy Evans, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 July 2019
  • London’s Harry Styles event saw 12 foppish men in feather boas, Gucci flares, and floppy haircuts vying for the prize.
    — Raven Smith, Vogue, 19 Nov. 2024
  • Nearby a half-length painting of Saint Sebastian reimagines its subject as an almost foppish youth with auburn hair and a single arrow piercing his smooth torso.
    — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 24 June 2021
  • Gwen Loeb is wonderfully funny as a foppish courtier and as rough-mannered country worker Audrey, with whom Touchstone strikes up a romance.
    — Sam Hurwitt, The Mercury News, 10 July 2019
  • Weekday lunches are equally buzzy; stately but relaxed affairs with a mix of MPs, moguls, foppish eccentrics, and women in the latest Roksanda dresses.
    — Steven Stolman, Town & Country, 24 Oct. 2016
  • Her characters are played large – very large in some cases, especially Cal Harris as a deliciously foppish Prince John.
    — David Lyman, Cincinnati.com, 29 July 2017
  • The protagonist, one Reginald Bunthorne, is a foppish aesthete who’s gained star status but is frustrated in his attempts to win the heart of the titular milkmaid Patience.
    — Randy McMullen, The Mercury News, 8 Feb. 2017
  • Speaking of styling tricks to steal, the foppish ties that almost looked like silk scarves or ribbons at the Yohji Yamamoto show would be a good alternative for women who want some kind of necktie but think a traditional men’s tie reads too costumey.
    — Marisa Meltzer, Vanity Fair, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Ruffalo, 56, has earned some of the biggest praise of his career as the foppish Duncan Wedderburn in Lanthimos’ surreally goofy take on Frankenstein.
    — Jack Smart, Peoplemag, 8 Jan. 2024
  • As foppish Andrew Aguecheek, Jacob Dresch is particularly funny with his physicality.
    — Matthew J. Palm, OrlandoSentinel.com, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Atkins perfectly catches Spenser’s breezy voice and Parker’s knack for creating vivid characters — notably a foppish, condescending British detective who is also hunting the paintings.
    — Adam Woog, The Seattle Times, 17 Apr. 2018
  • Making this pronouncement is officious Lord Nooth, the governor of the area's spiffy bronze age town, who's played by Hiddleston like a foppish, money-hungry Roman provincial functionary with a truly eccentric accent.
    — Kenneth Turan, latimes.com, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Hoult and Cage sell the toxic odd-couple dynamic well, but a sturdier story is required to fully support their performances, especially Cage’s operatic Dracula, who delights in terrorizing his foppish familiar.
    — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2023

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