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

The fact is, in my experience, it is always some absurdly finicking trifle, which, when neglected, brings disaster to the greatest undertakings.

From First Person Paramount by Pratt, Ambrose

Plain men would call him finicking, and practical men would think it impossible to work with him.

From Quisanté by Hope, Anthony

She set him down in her own mind as "too finicking," while his good looks did not happen to be of a type that appealed to her.

From In Brief Authority by Anstey, F.