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

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

"It must be wonderful living in that atmosphere, the atmosphere of might and power, where men and women aren't governed by the finicking rules which vitiate the Western world."

From The Angel of Terror by Wallace, Edgar

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

Consequently he is never finicking in his phraseology, and seldom final.

From Washington Irving by Boynton, Henry Walcott