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

To Diana he was as a stranger, with no laugh in the glittering blue eyes, and none of the almost finicking politeness that usually characterised his bearing.

From The Black Moth A Romance of the XVIIIth Century by Heyer, Georgette

There was, however, nothing that any one could have termed finicking about him.

From Delilah of the Snows by Bindloss, Harold

My prudence appeared to me the merest poltroonery, my remark about 'begging' the most finicking absurdity, my failure to accept Ted's offer the most reckless and offensive stupidity.

From The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography by Dawson, A. J. (Alec John)

She oughtn't be pampered and made any more finicking than she is.

From A Little Girl in Old Salem by Douglas, Amanda Minnie