finicking
Example Sentences
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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
However, he watched very carefully the careless, well-bred eating of Little and the finicking deportment of Graves, and managed to strike the middle course.
From Bindle Some Chapters in the Life of Joseph Bindle by Herbert George Jenkins
She oughtn't be pampered and made any more finicking than she is.
From A Little Girl in Old Salem by Amanda Minnie Douglas
He thought the house would never get itself done—one brick at a time—and each brick cost a farthing—slow, careful; yes, and even finicking.
From Clayhanger by Arnold Bennett
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 A. J. (Alec John) Dawson
