finicking
Example Sentences
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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
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
Halley, on the other hand, almost despised accurate observations as finicking.
From Astronomical Discovery by Herbert Hall Turner
Melchard, with a finicking air of nonchalance, stood where he was left, lighting a cigarette.
From Ambrotox and Limping Dick by Oliver Fleming
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
