finical

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About his productions he was superfinical, but not primarily for art's sake; being finical seemed to pay.

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The greedy newspapers, swollen with the story, alarmed the finical Florenz.

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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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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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Miss Fleming never expected from men the finical gallantry usually paid to young ladies, and even the gallant Virginian did not give it to her.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20. July, 1877. by Various