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
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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 Herbert George Jenkins
Plain men would call him finicking, and practical men would think it impossible to work with him.
From Quisanté by Anthony Hope
"Dear niece," said Rachel, with an unusually fine and finicking accent.
From Aunt Rachel by David Christie Murray
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 Arnold Bennett
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