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

To Diana he was as a stranger, with no laugh in the glittering blue eyes, and none of the almost finicking politeness that usually characterised his bearing.

From The Black Moth A Romance of the XVIIIth Century by Heyer, Georgette

For Darius cigarettes were aristocratic and finicking; they were an affectation.

From Clayhanger by Bennett, Arnold

Plain men would call him finicking, and practical men would think it impossible to work with him.

From Quisanté by Hope, Anthony

A month ago no one had ever heard of him, and now here he was, with his damned finicking ways and smooth tongue, thinking that all the world was made for him.

From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Mitford, Bertram