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

Old Madame Am�lie found him finicking and fine.

From The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

Melchard, with a finicking air of nonchalance, stood where he was left, lighting a cigarette.

From Ambrotox and Limping Dick by Fleming, Oliver

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 Bennett, Arnold

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