finical

Example Sentences

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The greedy newspapers, swollen with the story, alarmed the finical Florenz.

From Time Magazine Archive

In an adept supporting cast, Fred Tiden is outstanding as the finical son-in-law who cannot bear to have small children tumbling about him.

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sometimes the weft of his spinning loosens, is overdrawn or finical.

From Time Magazine Archive

Because crows eat almost anything they can find, and pick up a good living where other birds, more finical or less clever, would starve, they rarely need to migrate; but they are great rovers.

From Birds Every Child Should Know by Blanchan, Neltje