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foppish

/fop-ish/US // ˈfɒp ɪʃ //

嬉皮士,嬉皮笑脸的,嬉皮的,嬉皮笑脸

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : resembling or befitting a fop; excessively refined and fastidious in taste and manner.

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Examples

  • Hay was the foppish “smiling emissary” whose conversational skills could make petitioners forget they came to see the president.

  • Or that “macaronis” were foppish, sexually ambiguous males in the 1760s and 1770s?

  • Once he got his foppish foot in the door, he celebrated by unleashing the full majesty of his pent-up fashion exhibitionism.

  • Had I not known him, I should have seen in the scrupulous part in his hair a suggestion of the foppish.

  • He was only thirty feet behind Peter Niburg when that foppish gentleman reached the corner.

  • He turned and stared after Mamise and noted the way she went, with the foppish stranger carrying the heavy baggage.

  • And it must be admitted that those mere foppish, inane nothings did produce a seeming of difference.

  • There is nothing finical or foppish about the conventions which Mr. Harcourt undertakes to codify and explain.