His foppery during the show earned him the dislike of the entire audience. From LearnThat.org.
Edmund's speech, where the word "foppery" is a special clue. From Wordnik.com. [Montaigne and Shakspere] Reference
From a kind of foppery peculiar to himself, he wears the thick cloak of a common soldier. From Wordnik.com. [A Hero of Our Time] Reference
'foppery' was a sufficient argument for detesting it. From Wordnik.com. [The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1] Reference
“I thought 'foppery' was a consequence of refinement. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Lord Byron With His Letters And Journals]
As it is, he is the victim of an intellectual foppery. From Wordnik.com. [My Contemporaries In Fiction] Reference
He could not bear the aristocratic foppery of that Cathelineau. From Wordnik.com. [La Vend�e] Reference
I would have preferred skipping all this idiotic foppery, you know. From Wordnik.com. [Blue System]
I was very sorry however to find that this foppery came from Greece. From Wordnik.com. [Travels through France and Italy] Reference
Wylie laughed, a surprisingly deep and masculine sound, given his foppery. From Wordnik.com. [Drums of Autumn]
Let others ape the latest foppery of the mortals; he would keep to what suited him. From Wordnik.com. [This Scepter'd Isle]
The work is tedious, prolix, affected, abounding in pedantry and in intellectual foppery. From Wordnik.com. [England under the Tudors] Reference
He disliked foppery, but was always neat in his apparel: on holidays he wore a suit of black. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century] Reference
In his dress, not the slightest approach to foppery could be detected; all was faultless elegance. From Wordnik.com. [Venus in Boston; A Romance of City Life] Reference
And pray, may I not ask, if the taste of the age, among the men, is not dress, equipage, and foppery?. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Charles Grandison] Reference
In the world of foppery, nothing says "autumn" like a crisp, new, expensive cycling-specific dress shirt. From Wordnik.com. [BSNYC Friday Fun Quiz!] Reference
We shall insert it in evidence that the foppery of our ancestors was not inferior to that of our own time. From Wordnik.com. [The Monastery] Reference
English gentleman, and he had a gaiety of look and manner, but far removed from foppery of apparel or demeanour. From Wordnik.com. [Kalli, the Esquimaux Christian A Memoir] Reference
Washington, D.C. Gene Lyons replies: I fear that Mr. Evans-Pritchard is indulging in a bit of intellectual foppery. From Wordnik.com. [The Vincent Foster Case] Reference
Trix is equal to that sort of thing, but it is n't like Tom, for with all his foppery he is a good fellow at heart. From Wordnik.com. [An Old-Fashioned Girl] Reference
His courage and affectation of foppery were united, which is less frequently the case, with a spirit of innate modesty. From Wordnik.com. [Rob Roy] Reference
It will be much more easy therefore to laugh him into reason, than convert him from his foppery by any serious contempt. From Wordnik.com. [The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899] Reference
On the other hand, he has the faults of his class strongly marked -- intense foppery in dress, general Sybaritism of living. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference
'Come, come, a truce for a moment, with foppery, and answer me seriously; Were you ever in love, Clarendel? speak the truth. From Wordnik.com. [Camilla] Reference
She will be tied up for her lifetime in France, in that land of satin and foppery, whilst we go about our business unhindered. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles]
He was remarkable for foppery in his dress, and particularly for wearing a bunch of sixteen strings at the knees of his breeches. —. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D.] Reference
And for this Reason, every Piece of just Ridicule in public or private bestowed on any foppery wrong or foolish Conduct, gives me great. From Wordnik.com. [John Adams diary 7, 21 March - 18 October 1761] Reference
You do not believe this fact, nor that these are my real feelings; but that the whole is affected, or as you express it, downright foppery. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
The Grandmontines, a smaller branch, were widely known for their foppery: the young monks painted their cheeks, and washed and covered their beards at night. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction] Reference
The “vanity and foppery” of the “next generation” would sap the republic, and make all of Adams's and Jefferson's labors in the cause of liberty vain. From Wordnik.com. [America's First Dynasty] Reference
Still, he has no patience with the foppery whose whole existence advertises fine clothes, patronizes taverns, saunters along fashionable promenades, and ogles opera-dancers. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858] Reference
Affectation, foppery, and conceit, have protracted the memoirs of this renowned personage to such an extent; but in spite of all that unfashionable critics have said, Vivian. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 322, July 12, 1828] Reference
The passage about Marie Antoinette, which has since become a stock piece in books of recitation, seemed to Francis a mere piece of foppery; for was she not a Messalina and a jade?. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
Snow-white linen, indeed, constitutes the principal feature in the robber foppery of Spain. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula] Reference
I most sincerely despise his foppery; yet I should be grieved to meet with contempt from any body. From Wordnik.com. [Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World] Reference
You will discover as many silly affections, as much foppery and futility, as much inconsistency and low artifice in one as in the other. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to Sir William Windham and Mr. Pope] Reference
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