Crossword-Solution: FOPPERY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Foppery | n. | The behavior, dress, or other indication of a fop; coxcombry; affectation of show; showy folly. |
| Foppery | n. | Folly; foolery. |
We have 8 clues for the answer “FOPPERY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Coxcombry. | 1 answer |
| Dandyism | 1 answer |
| foppishness | 1 answer |
| fashionableness | 2 answers |
| world of fashion | 3 answers |
| Good Form | 37 answers |
| Affect | 75 answers |
| Rage | 101 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEERA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with FOPPERY (5)
The interval had not entirely been bestowed in holding council with his confederates, for De Bracy had found leisure to decorate his person with all the foppery of the times.
There was certainly no harm in his travelling sixteen miles twice over on such an errand; but there was an air of foppery and nonsense in it which she could not approve.
After speaking of the greatness of his favorite poets of the Elizabethan period, he continues:-- “Could all this be forgotten? Yes, a schism Nurtured by foppery and barbarism, Made great Apollo blush for this his land.
The higher class of the Andalusians are probably upon the whole the most vain and foolish of human beings, with a taste for nothing but sensual amusements, foppery in dress, and ribald discourse.
Besides, a man who has no foppery at twenty will be a slatternly, dirty-collar, unbrushed-coat man at forty.
Quotes with FOPPERY (2)
We debate sometimes what is to be the future of this nation when we think that in a few years public affairs may be in the hands of the fin-de-siecle gilded youths we see about us during the Christmas holidays. Such foppery, such luxury, such insolence, was surely never practiced by the scented, overbearing patricians of the Palatine, even in Rome's most decadent epoch. In all the wild orgy of wastefulness and luxury with which the nineteenth century reaches its close, the gi…
I had as lief have the foppery of freedom as the morality of imprisonment.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1946–2000).