What's the difference between coxcombry and foppish?
Coxcombry
Definition:
(n.) The manners of a coxcomb; foppishness.
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Foppish
Definition:
(a.) Foplike; characteristic of a top in dress or manners; making an ostentatious display of gay clothing; affected in manners.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Who embody that classic British pop cult paradox: foppish violence.
(2) A quick graze of the internet will provide fan theories to feed any hunches you’ve long felt about the happy-go-lucky companionship of Timon and Pumbaa, and their effective adoption of baby Simba, in The Lion King – or indeed the foppish villainy of the same film’s Scar, an alpha lion who has never found a mate in the pride.
(3) But the one that really jumped out was of a chav-themed school disco: all these rosy-cheeked, foppish-looking public schoolkids dressed in baseball caps and Adidas tracksuits.
(4) Meanwhile, his trademark foppish hair and retro indie kid glasses have that perfect British nerdishness thing going on: one part Geography teacher, one part Dalston muso.
(5) His Vietnam war heroism was recast as cowardice by George W Bush’s allies in 2004, and Bush successfully portrayed Kerry as a foppish buffoon.
(6) Will you be checking in on Depp's bumbling, foppish clot?
(7) Beneath the foppish exterior, however – he always wore a waistcoat and a watch-chain – the spirit of a true radical was often trying to escape.
(8) No longer the foppish stereotype Brit, more high-minded Gary Cooper in Mr Deeds Goes to Town.
(9) Elsewhere, he captures a foppish Mick Jagger with Marianne Faithfull attending a banquet in Co Kildare as guests of Desmond Guinness.
(10) But while the Downton Effect benefits Cumberbatch and co, ex-Hollyoaks stars don't exactly fit the foppish British stereotype beloved of US casting directors.