finical
Example Sentences
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Sometimes the weft of his spinning loosens, is overdrawn or finical.
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About his productions he was superfinical, but not primarily for art's sake; being finical seemed to pay.
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Slow-painting, finical Grant Wood spent months boning up on costumes, background for Parson Weems' Fable, then did a full-scale preliminary drawing of it.
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Canadians have grown heartily weary of the King.'s man they have now, dull, finical Vere Brabazon Ponsonby, ninth Earl of Bessborough.
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Professional men disfigured the language by conventional pedantries; the finical courtier would prate “nothing but Chaucer.”
From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac
