Example sentences for: foppish

How can you use “foppish” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • An exhibition of the foppish pop artist's ephemera--his clothes, souvenirs, and photos--is panned as unexpectedly boring and blindly reverential of Warhol.

  • Most critics report mixed reactions: "[T]his handsome, airtight meditation on art, celebrity, love, and rampant repertory-group horniness indulges in a lot of very American navel gazing" (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ). Janet Maslin gives the film its most upbeat review, calling it an "enormously fond homage to the world of acting, beguilingly presented and filled with knowing backstage humor" (the New York Times ). Two stars get special note for their performances: Christopher Walken as a flamboyantly foppish critic and Susan Sarandon as an aging but still dynamite diva.

  • Maggs returns from New South Wales, where he is now a citizen of good repute and considerable wealth, to England, where he is still a wanted man, to find Phipps, whose foppish lifestyle he has long subsidized.

  • Wolfe seems very conservative, very arrogant, very foppish, and very genuine.


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