All heads turned to her as she made her way to the dance floor in her foppish attire. From LearnThat.org.
His whole dress and air was not what could properly be called foppish, it was rather what at that time was called "rakish.". From Wordnik.com. [Lucretia — Complete] Reference
But now the august Wall Street Journal officially declares that collar-poppin is not "foppish" a bit!. From Wordnik.com. [Gawker: Valleywag] Reference
We're not just a bunch of foppish, preening standees after all!. From Wordnik.com. [Bob Cesca: Why the Media Taint-Mongers are Continuing to Wrongfully Accuse Obama] Reference
The foppish, tortured artist who looks like a Kenneth Cole model. From Wordnik.com. [Little Boy Blue] Reference
The effeminate, foppish ABC is in all likelihood an atheist himself. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
He was a slim, foppish fellow, and he looked more puzzled than angry. From Wordnik.com. [Greenmantle] Reference
The ugly, foppish man continued to weave his way down the Street of Lanterns. From Wordnik.com. [Curse of the Shadowmage]
A fine, foppish series that should have been offered in one complete collection. From Wordnik.com. [DVDs: Sherlock Holmes-Apalooza!] Reference
If you change your mind on how to fund your campaign, you are a foppish Flip-Flopper. From Wordnik.com. ["I'M CONFUSED"] Reference
At last, apparently at random, the foppish lord plunged through the left-hand archway. From Wordnik.com. [Curse of the Shadowmage]
The extremely elegant, almost foppish Lord Francis Kneller was part of the same group. From Wordnik.com. [A Christmas Bride]
He was a haughty beanpole who dressed with great elegance and affected a foppish manner. From Wordnik.com. [Conqueror's Moon]
In his fine black clothes he was almost foppish, yet you can hardly call him fashionable. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Father Brown] Reference
Don't be extravagant or foppish in your dress, or borrow or lend, either clothing or money. From Wordnik.com. [The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy] Reference
The foppish lord began to shake his head, then moaned and pressed his fingers against his temples. From Wordnik.com. [The Seduction Of Sara]
His Cretan looks, his finery, his foppish ways, all made him doubtful to me, once I began to doubt. From Wordnik.com. [The King Must Die]
One man rose to the bait, a foppish cavalry officer whose English drawl spoke of aristocratic birth. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Sword]
So guys, there's nothing foppish about turning up the collar on leather jackets, coats and some shirts. From Wordnik.com. [Popping Up Your Collar] Reference
A man in foppish, nineteenth-century clothes perused a book at a white wrought-iron table in the garden. From Wordnik.com. [Gorky Park]
I relearned epee from a cruel-looking man in foppish clothes, in an eighteenth-century French courtyard. From Wordnik.com. [The Forever War]
Smiles only occasionally to himself knowingly in on his own jokes square cut jaw handsome in a foppish way. From Wordnik.com. [Youngish Professor, or Grad Student TA] Reference
North Carolina fans have always tended toward the foppish — with bowties and checked pants a common choice. From Wordnik.com. [Kansas Exorcises the Ghost of Roy] Reference
A pointed vandyke and curled-up mustache gave the slaver the appearance of a foppish raven with clipped wings. From Wordnik.com. [The End of the Matter]
In the vestibule I came upon a tall, solid gentleman with fashionable whiskers and a foppish-looking overcoat. From Wordnik.com. [The Wife] Reference
On a certain Friday he was seen to be fasting by a very foppish barrister, who thought a great deal of himself. From Wordnik.com. [The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent] Reference
Evidently, the foppish Balt Haer had no illusions about the spot his father had got the family corporation into. From Wordnik.com. [Mercenary] Reference
The latter was a foppish young man about town, who tried to be friendly with Betty; but she would have none of him. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls at Rainbow Lake Or, the stirring cruise of the motor boat Gem] Reference
Quite in contrast to these boys was Percy Falconer, a rather foppish lad, who greatly admired Betty -- as who did not?. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls in a Motor Car The Haunted Mansion of Shadow Valley] Reference
Sharpe had been curious as to why the tall, elegant, foppish man had joined a mere line regiment like the South Essex. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Honour]
Karl Lagerfeld, with his Team America puppet proportions, has paved the way for older foppish men to enter this group. From Wordnik.com. [Fashion Week Freaks! Here Is Handy Primer] Reference
Have a care! society already begins to have its attraction for you: I have seen you with a shiny hat, a foppish neckerchief. From Wordnik.com. [Taras Bulba and Other Tales] Reference
A dapper little foppish gentleman in white silk trousers, with a white cap on his head, was walking beside my mother in the garden. From Wordnik.com. [The Wife] Reference
If truth be told, however, Edward VIII may have been unsuited to be king -- foppish, feckless, privately sympathetic to Adolf Hitler. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 30, 2002] Reference
Just beyond them stood a pale lady in pink, smiling up at a foppish gentleman whose shirt points forced his chin to a ridiculous angle. From Wordnik.com. [The Seduction Of Sara]
For the first time the delicate garments, the luxurious toilet articles packed in his bag, seemed foppish, unnecessary, things for a woman. From Wordnik.com. [The Gay Cockade] Reference
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