as in old-maidish
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Adjective
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Among his electronic competitors was Thomas, a foppish, rail-thin twentysomething with a penchant for provocatively unbuttoned silk shirts, and who spoke nonchalantly about Gaussian functions, Faraday’s law of induction, and something called the hysteresis curve.—
Matthew Sherrill, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
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And then that version of Nosferatu fell apart, and Bill was cast in The Northman as this sort of foppish cousin of Alexander Skarsgård.—
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Hardly a masterpiece and certainly not a sappy, populist embarrassment, The Shawshank Redemption is simply a solid, good movie — an assessment that will probably annoy people in both camps.—
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The sappy Lifetime original is just the latest in the chain's social media marketing strategy.—
Adjective
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Albee's 1962 play won a Tony Award, and would have also won a Pulitzer Prize for drama, if the prissy trustees of Columbia University hadn't overruled the jury.—
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Some of that’s changing times, some of that is because a not-insignificant portion of W.A.S.P. fans are prissy suburbanites themselves.—
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Every individual, sparrow or human, has masculine and feminine characteristics.—
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Play with Proportions Choosing an oversized floral pattern can give the traditionally soft and feminine style an unexpectedly modern look.—
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“Dudish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dudish. Accessed 27 Feb. 2025.
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