finicking
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Then the cousin laughed coarsely and he said to Lotus, who sat there smoking her water pipe, “These town women are too finicking, are they not, Old Mistress?”
From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck
The dressed-up, finicking carpet skipper was fully his own equal in pluck, and in cool-headedness immeasurably his superior.
From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Bertram Mitford
Consequently he is never finicking in his phraseology, and seldom final.
From Washington Irving by Henry Walcott Boynton
Roxdal continued to exhibit the same finicking temperament in the petty details of the ménage.
From The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies by Israel Zangwill
However, he watched very carefully the careless, well-bred eating of Little and the finicking deportment of Graves, and managed to strike the middle course.
From Bindle Some Chapters in the Life of Joseph Bindle by Herbert George Jenkins
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