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

Of course I know your finicking way of calling it Lah Delle; but, if you’re English, it’s Ladle.

From Cormorant Crag A Tale of the Smuggling Days by Rainey, W. (William)

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

The other thing about whitewashing is that it is done with a broom, not with a finicking brush and a small pot, but a good fat bucket and the housemaid’s soft-broom.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-05-12 by Seaman, Owen, Sir

"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