Foppish, Tergiversate

Foppish- extremely interested in one’s appearance (usually used for a man)

Ex: We weren’t surprised to find out that our foppish former classmate opened up a haberdashery on main street. He would show up to school looking like an early American senator with his powdered wig, pocket watch, and monocle. He wore ferret skin sweater vests on top of frilly lace button downs and only wrote in quill and ink. His knickerbockers were tweed and hemmed down precisely, and his shoes were cobbled together out of red maple wood, deer tooth, and cowhide. What he lacked in friends he more than made up for in antiquated fashion sense. And that was okay with him. He didn’t care much for other people’s opinions, except for that damn Federalist Frederick Frelinghuysen and his hard-on for the implied powers of the constitution.

Tergiversate- to make conflicting, competing statements; to flip-flop one’s opinion

Ex: She had tergiversated on the pineapple on pizza debate for years now. First it was if you put pineapple on pizza, I don’t want to be associated with you. Then it became if you badmouth pineapple pizza, I’ll key your car. At some point, she switched back to her original stance, stating that if you eat a pineapple slice you deserve nothing less than to contract some flesh-eating bacteria that erodes your tongue. But then, once again, she pledged her allegiance. To the flag. Of the pineapple slices of America. She was last seen doing a press run at a local Barnes and Noble for her book Tropic(al Pie) of Cancer: Why so Many Girls Put Their Opinion of Pineapple Pizza in Their Online Dating Profiles, As if This is Something Vitally Important That I Should Know About Them.