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

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

He thought the house would never get itself done—one brick at a time—and each brick cost a farthing—slow, careful; yes, and even finicking.

From Clayhanger by Bennett, Arnold

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

However, he watched very carefully the careless, well-bred eating of Little and the finicking deportment of Graves, and managed to strike the middle course.

From Bindle Some Chapters in the Life of Joseph Bindle by Jenkins, Herbert George