finical
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He still writes perfectly, that is to say, with great solicitude for the antique rhythm and consonance of his finical phrases, but his passion for beautiful happenings has been lapped by the irony of surfeit.
From Time Magazine Archive
Canadians have grown heartily weary of the King.'s man they have now, dull, finical Vere Brabazon Ponsonby, ninth Earl of Bessborough.
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Sometimes the weft of his spinning loosens, is overdrawn or finical.
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Famed among finical fight enthusiasts is the NBC team of Sam Taub & Bill Stern that works for Adam, describing right hooks and Homburgs with equal competency.
From Time Magazine Archive
The common Scots saying, on the sight of anything operose and finical, “he must have had little to do that made that!” might be put as epigraph on all the song-books of old France.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 3 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
