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fingering

verb as in touch lightly

verb as in choose, designate

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Example Sentences

It's done by false fingering and adjusting your lips and if it's done right you get triads.

Maybe the administration has private intelligence fingering the regime.

He also lashed out at Curtis and his attorneys for fingering him.

In politics, the flip-flopper label is deemed deadly, the fingering of a candidate with no fixed principles.

Short Cut pointed, but the girl was already fingering the fringes of his bulletproof vest.

"So that is Jim Poindexter, the bloody villain," muttered the boy between his set teeth, and nervously fingering his revolver.

"Skull ain't broke," replied Texas, fingering the wound as roughly as if it had been in the flesh of a beast.

I fell to fingering these with the same impulse of thoughtlessness that induces people to bite their finger-nails.

While thus engaged I suddenly became aware of the fact that the young fellow was fingering at the worn place on the chair-arm.

Gutmann told me that his master's playing was particularly smooth, and his fingering calculated to attain this result.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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