finicking
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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
Plain men would call him finicking, and practical men would think it impossible to work with him.
From Quisanté by Anthony Hope
"It must be wonderful living in that atmosphere, the atmosphere of might and power, where men and women aren't governed by the finicking rules which vitiate the Western world."
From The Angel of Terror by Edgar Wallace
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 F. Anstey
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
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