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
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
A month ago no one had ever heard of him, and now here he was, with his damned finicking ways and smooth tongue, thinking that all the world was made for him.
From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Bertram Mitford
Roxdal continued to exhibit the same finicking temperament in the petty details of the ménage.
From The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies by Israel Zangwill
"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 Edgar Wallace
