finicking

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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

She oughtn't be pampered and made any more finicking than she is.

From A Little Girl in Old Salem by Douglas, Amanda Minnie

The surgeon was a tall, and very finicking sort of gentleman as to dress; but well informed, friendly in disposition, and perfectly acquainted with his profession.

From Percival Keene by Marryat, Frederick

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 Murray, David Christie

He drew further into the shadow at sight of the figure which picked a finicking way along the passage and paused only at the open doorway to furl his umbrella.

From Jack O' Judgment by Wallace, Edgar