Foppish

Foppish (adj): foolish, silly

"...wearing a foppish waistcoat, a somewhat worn jacket, and not very fresh linen..." (Dostoevsky, 159)



Many sports fans who paint their faces end up looking foppish.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor. Crime and Punishment. Trans. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. Print.

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