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

A feeble, and fussy, and finicking little proctor, who happened to be on the bank, was pompously endeavouring to assert his dignity, and make himself attended to.

From Julian Home by Farrar, F. W. (Frederic William)

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

From Washington Irving by Boynton, Henry Walcott

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

Halley, on the other hand, almost despised accurate observations as finicking.

From Astronomical Discovery by Turner, Herbert Hall