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
When I had done he said, with his finicking lisp, 'Seven days' cells, hard labour.'
From The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography by David Christie Murray
Halley, on the other hand, almost despised accurate observations as finicking.
From Astronomical Discovery by Herbert Hall Turner
Of course I know your finicking way of calling it Lah Delle; but, if you’re English, it’s Ladle.
From Cormorant Crag A Tale of the Smuggling Days by W. (William) Rainey
If you mean about his finicking ways, I do find a change," Ellen replied, "and a good job, too.
From The Double Life Of Mr. Alfred Burton by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
