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
If you mean about his finicking ways, I do find a change," Ellen replied, "and a good job, too.
From The Double Life Of Mr. Alfred Burton by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
Halley, on the other hand, almost despised accurate observations as finicking.
From Astronomical Discovery by Herbert Hall Turner
The dressed-up, finicking carpet skipper was fully his own equal in pluck, and in cool-headedness immeasurably his superior.
From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Bertram Mitford
