Thesaurus / finical

finical

How to use finical in a sentence

"With pleasure, madame," replied Monsieur de Robespierre, with his finical gallantry.

I love the writing of it though it is a finical unobvious task—more so than it looks.

Much money is often worse than wasted, by finical ornaments, which are fast going out of fashion.

The common Scotch saying, on the sight of anything operose and finical, “he must have had little to do that made that!”

There is nothing finical or foppish about the conventions which Mr. Harcourt undertakes to codify and explain.

BEN'S NUGGETHORATIO, JR. ALGER

When, however, the writing is finical a large mass of material has to be examined before a decision can be reached.

So, when that finical appetite of mine would suddenly cry out for oysters, I could think of nothing else.

"The dear, good soul is finical as a cat," with the good-natured indulgence of a mother for a child.

While Schlegel became ever more fastidious and finical in his style, Voss grew more brusque and rugged.

Sir Joshua Reynolds, as we know, would have regarded this as the essence of finical vulgarity.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985