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
Well, I’ve seen some inventive geniuses among the species, and while we’re driving straight ahead we can find use for a man if he’s honest and handy finicking round the chores.
From Lorimer of the Northwest by Dewey, Alfred James
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)
For Darius cigarettes were aristocratic and finicking; they were an affectation.
From Clayhanger by Bennett, Arnold
A month ago no one had ever heard of him, and now here he was, with his damned finicking ways and smooth tongue, thinking that all the world was made for him.
From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Mitford, Bertram
