Foppery

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Foolish quality or action.
  • n. The dress or manner of a fop.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The dress or actions of a fop
  • n. Stupidity
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The behavior, dress, or other indication of a fop; coxcombry; affectation of show; showy folly.
  • n. Folly; foolery.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Foolishness; foolery; foolish vanity; vain show.
  • n. A foolish or mocking exhibition.
  • n. Vain ornaments; gewgaws.
  • n. Affectation of precision in trifles, or fastidious observance of the prevailing fashion; dandyism: as, the foppery of dress or of manners.
  • Foppish; foolish.
    • Word Usage
    "The descriptions are "high-falutin" beyond all endurance, and there is particularly noticeable a kind of stylistic foppery, which is always hovering between sublimity and a giggle."
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    coxcombry    folly    foolery   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    wilfulness    vainglory    willfulness    wastefulness    coxcombry   
     
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