finicking

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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

Consequently he is never finicking in his phraseology, and seldom final.

From Washington Irving by Boynton, Henry Walcott

He drew further into the shadow at sight of the figure which picked a finicking way along the passage and paused only at the open doorway to furl his umbrella.

From Jack O' Judgment by Wallace, Edgar

If you mean about his finicking ways, I do find a change," Ellen replied, "and a good job, too.

From The Double Life Of Mr. Alfred Burton by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)

There was, however, nothing that any one could have termed finicking about him.

From Delilah of the Snows by Bindloss, Harold