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
There was, however, nothing that any one could have termed finicking about him.
From Delilah of the Snows by Harold Bindloss
You're too finicking and high-strung and fanciful for a prosaic world.
From The Half-Hearted by John Buchan
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
Consequently he is never finicking in his phraseology, and seldom final.
From Washington Irving by Henry Walcott Boynton
