finical
Example Sentences
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The greedy newspapers, swollen with the story, alarmed the finical Florenz.
From Time Magazine Archive
He still writes perfectly, that is to say, with great solicitude for the antique rhythm and consonance of his finical phrases, but his passion for beautiful happenings has been lapped by the irony of surfeit.
From Time Magazine Archive
About his productions he was superfinical, but not primarily for art's sake; being finical seemed to pay.
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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.
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Mr Wilton's sister, the aunt of both, was a rich widow, but of a morose and finical temper.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. 9 by Various
