(I plead guilty to foppishness myself, but I do admit it.). From Wordnik.com. [Living Wage Protesters Arrested...Again at cvillenews.com] Reference
Cossack foppishness which consists in imitating the Chechen brave. From Wordnik.com. [The Cossacks] Reference
Emma decided she preferred the American wayless foppishness, more volume. From Wordnik.com. [Gold of Kings] Reference
And it may have been associated with a European foppishness that we didn't like. From Wordnik.com. [Gorgeous George: Lessons From a Bad Boy] Reference
He was noted at Cambridge for his foppishness, and for wearing scented kid gloves. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
Even the fops in their foppishness were of a magnitude in harmony with their period. From Wordnik.com. [The Letter-Bag of Lady Elizabeth Spencer-Stanhope — Volume 1] Reference
Archibald Dorrimore, for whose foppishness she had a contempt, simply because he was rich!. From Wordnik.com. [Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'] Reference
Lets stop this foppishness, recognize the scale of the problem at hand, and realize its JUST A COMIC. From Wordnik.com. [So there.] Reference
After all, Franklin Roosevelt was sneered at by his elite schoolboy peers for foppishness and egotism. From Wordnik.com. [THE SOLITARY SOLDIER] Reference
Whatever of foppishness there might be in his dress, was qualified by the dignified grace of his manner. From Wordnik.com. [City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston] Reference
Besides that, I'm given to foppishness and dandyism and always feel like I'm showing off when I dress up. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference
Their uncouthness gave a scruple of foppishness to M'I ver, and sent him seeking a razor in the widow's house. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
The foppishness of aspects of the Roy Evans era came out in their tendency towards the floppy-on-top public school 'do. From Wordnik.com. [Five things we learned from the Premier League this weekend] Reference
They were dressed fashionably, but simply; with strict neatness and propriety, but without any mannerism or foppishness. From Wordnik.com. [The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon] Reference
Be patient; think out every piece of work, discard your foppishness; let others amass money, your own will not fail you. ''. From Wordnik.com. [Taras Bulba and Other Tales] Reference
Alex Ward, like most vigorous, manly boys of his type, had a fixed dislike for anything approaching foppishness, especially in other boys. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Railroaders Tales of Adventure and Ingenuity] Reference
I must not be charged with foppishness on this account. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova] Reference
A little foppishness in a young man is good; it is human. From Wordnik.com. [Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow] Reference
Baumgarten improved on acquaintance in spite of his foppishness in dress. From Wordnik.com. [The Face and the Mask] Reference
He had inordinate vanity, and there are many stories about his foppishness. From Wordnik.com. [Youth and the Bright Medusa] Reference
Ceasing to be shag, it does not become beauty, but foppishness, effeminacy, Miss. From Wordnik.com. [Gala-days] Reference
As a matter of routine, he dressed well, but he abhorred the hint of foppishness. From Wordnik.com. [The Crown of Life] Reference
Elaine was too clever to confound his dandyism with foppishness or self - advertisement. From Wordnik.com. [The Unbearable Bassington] Reference
He took the greatest care of them, as in fact of his whole person, without foppishness, however. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of the private life of Napoleon]
Erskine was not more noticeable for the foppishness of his dress than was Lord Kenyon for a sordid attire. From Wordnik.com. [A Book About Lawyers] Reference
I hated him, partly, I do believe, from a comparison of my own homely garb with his well-ordered foppishness. From Wordnik.com. [The Blithedale Romance] Reference
His dress was neat to the verge of foppishness, nor did it seem much disordered by the hardships of the chase. From Wordnik.com. [The Law of the Land] Reference
His clothing was not rich, but he wore it with that peculiar Cossack foppishness which consists in imitating the. From Wordnik.com. [The Cossacks] Reference
He seems to belong to ancient history, he and his titanic foppishness and his smart clothes and his smart sayings. From Wordnik.com. [The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1] Reference
There are no wounds; instead there is a daintiness, almost a foppishness about his fingers that is worthy of a dandy. From Wordnik.com. [?Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam?] Reference
It was part of the foppishness of the fellow that the handkerchief was edged with lace, like a woman's or a grandee's. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie] Reference
They were dressed fashionably, but simply -- with strict neatness and propriety, but without any mannerism or foppishness. From Wordnik.com. [The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon] Reference
Mr. Alexander sometimes alluded in a pleasant way to his early foppishness, and told some amusing anecdotes, one of which I remember. From Wordnik.com. [Philip Gilbert Hamerton An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894] Reference
London Tavern, where poor Sammy dined with them two years ago, and attracted the notice of all by the singular foppishness of his dress. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb] Reference
No indication of aristocratic foppishness there. From Wordnik.com. [Crimefest 2010: The wisdom of authors and the reek of fermented shark] Reference
"Oh, yes," replied Cuchillo, with a certain air of foppishness, "I treat myself well. From Wordnik.com. [Wood Rangers The Trappers of Sonora] Reference
"A pest on my want of foppishness then. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Continent] Reference
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