finicking
Example Sentences
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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
Well, I’ve seen some inventive geniuses among the species, and while we’re driving straight ahead we can find use for a man if he’s honest and handy finicking round the chores.
From Lorimer of the Northwest by Alfred James Dewey
A feeble, and fussy, and finicking little proctor, who happened to be on the bank, was pompously endeavouring to assert his dignity, and make himself attended to.
From Julian Home by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar
For Darius cigarettes were aristocratic and finicking; they were an affectation.
From Clayhanger by Arnold Bennett
There was, however, nothing that any one could have termed finicking about him.
From Delilah of the Snows by Harold Bindloss
