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

Roxdal continued to exhibit the same finicking temperament in the petty details of the ménage.

From The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies by Zangwill, Israel

There were fifty-nine sheets of Aunt Annie's fine, finicking caligraphy, and the scribe and her nephew went down on their knees, and laid them in numerical sequence on the floor.

From A Great Man A Frolic by Bennett, Arnold

Melchard, with a finicking air of nonchalance, stood where he was left, lighting a cigarette.

From Ambrotox and Limping Dick by Fleming, Oliver

Consequently he is never finicking in his phraseology, and seldom final.

From Washington Irving by Boynton, Henry Walcott