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.

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Sometimes the weft of his spinning loosens, is overdrawn or finical.

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In an adept supporting cast, Fred Tiden is outstanding as the finical son-in-law who cannot bear to have small children tumbling about him.

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The early city's friendly and explosive vulgarity still pains finical Denverites in dark, slick Frederick Bonfils' incredibly blatant Denver Post.

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Fin′icalness, the quality of being finical: foppery; Fin′icking, fussiness and fastidiousness.—adjs.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various