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 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
To Diana he was as a stranger, with no laugh in the glittering blue eyes, and none of the almost finicking politeness that usually characterised his bearing.
From The Black Moth A Romance of the XVIIIth Century by Georgette Heyer
Consequently he is never finicking in his phraseology, and seldom final.
From Washington Irving by Henry Walcott Boynton
She set him down in her own mind as "too finicking," while his good looks did not happen to be of a type that appealed to her.
From In Brief Authority by F. Anstey
