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
Of course I know your finicking way of calling it Lah Delle; but, if you’re English, it’s Ladle.
From Cormorant Crag A Tale of the Smuggling Days by W. (William) Rainey
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 Henry Saint-George
"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
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
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