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

Thus we see players whose natural movements are bold and free trussed up in a small and finicking technique, and others whose bent is towards neatness, struggling manfully with a cumbersome "large style."

From The Bow, Its History, Manufacture and Use 'The Strad' Library, No. III. by Saint-George, Henry

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

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

However, he watched very carefully the careless, well-bred eating of Little and the finicking deportment of Graves, and managed to strike the middle course.

From Bindle Some Chapters in the Life of Joseph Bindle by Jenkins, Herbert George

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 Mitford, Bertram