finicking

• Several hours' daily submission to the exact regularities of lines of type and to the unvarying demands of minutely adjusted machines in motion had stamped Big James's body and mind with the delicate and quasi-finicking preciseness which characterises all compositors and printers; and the continual monotonous performance of similar tasks that employed his faculties while never absorbing or straining them, had soothed and dulled the fever of life in him to a beneficent calm, a calm refined and beautified by the pleasurable exercise of song. —  Clayhanger
• They were accustomed to Tom; Tom had been the Head Girl of their heart, and they resented the "finicking" ways of her successor as an insult to the dear departed Irene strove by a gentle mildness of demeanour to soften the prejudice against her, and the girls but abused her the more Catch Tom saying `_It didn't matter_'! —  Tom and Some Other Girls A Public School Story
• Plain men would call him finicking, and practical men would think it impossible to work with him. —  Quisanté
• Luis de Leon is not 'finicking'. —  Fray Luis de León A Biographical Fragment
• Owing to Henry's rather finicking, deliberate method as Benedick, I could never put the right pace into my part. —  The Story of My Life Recollections and Reflections

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