finical
Example Sentences
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Slow-painting, finical Grant Wood spent months boning up on costumes, background for Parson Weems' Fable, then did a full-scale preliminary drawing of it.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sometimes the weft of his spinning loosens, is overdrawn or finical.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
His conversation, though somewhat precise and finical on the first impression, was rich in knowledge.
From Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6 by Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson)
