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

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

From Astronomical Discovery by Turner, Herbert Hall

He drew further into the shadow at sight of the figure which picked a finicking way along the passage and paused only at the open doorway to furl his umbrella.

From Jack O' Judgment by Wallace, Edgar

And the real beauty and enormous power of his magnificent voice saved him by its mere distinction from the charge of being finicking.

From Clayhanger by Bennett, Arnold

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)