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
For Darius cigarettes were aristocratic and finicking; they were an affectation.
From Clayhanger by Bennett, Arnold
And the real beauty and enormous power of his magnificent voice saved him by its mere distinction from the charge of being finicking.
From Clayhanger by Bennett, Arnold
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)
"Dear niece," said Rachel, with an unusually fine and finicking accent.
From Aunt Rachel by Murray, David Christie
