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
And the real beauty and enormous power of his magnificent voice saved him by its mere distinction from the charge of being finicking.
From Clayhanger by Arnold Bennett
A month ago no one had ever heard of him, and now here he was, with his damned finicking ways and smooth tongue, thinking that all the world was made for him.
From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Bertram Mitford
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 Arnold Bennett
Roxdal continued to exhibit the same finicking temperament in the petty details of the ménage.
From The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies by Israel Zangwill
