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

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

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

"It must be wonderful living in that atmosphere, the atmosphere of might and power, where men and women aren't governed by the finicking rules which vitiate the Western world."

From The Angel of Terror by Wallace, Edgar

"Dear niece," said Rachel, with an unusually fine and finicking accent.

From Aunt Rachel by Murray, David Christie