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

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

Well, I’ve seen some inventive geniuses among the species, and while we’re driving straight ahead we can find use for a man if he’s honest and handy finicking round the chores.

From Lorimer of the Northwest by Dewey, Alfred James

The other thing about whitewashing is that it is done with a broom, not with a finicking brush and a small pot, but a good fat bucket and the housemaid’s soft-broom.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-05-12 by Seaman, Owen, Sir

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 Heyer, Georgette