Synonyms for finicking

Grammar : Adj

Spell : fin-ik

Phonetic Transcription : ˈfɪn ɪk

Top 10 synonyms for finicking

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Définition of finicking

As in nice : adj precise, neat, refined
As in finical : adj finicky
As in dainty : adj finicky, particular
As in delicate : adj fussy, discriminating
As in finicky : adj overparticular

Example sentences :

"Dear niece," said Rachel, with an unusually fine and finicking accent.
Extract from : « Aunt Rachel » by David Christie Murray

Pelle sat there getting angrier and angrier at his finicking tone.
Extract from : « Pelle the Conqueror, Complete » by Martin Anderson Nexo

And the fellow was so polite and so persuasive, with his finicking eloquence.
Extract from : « The Price of Love » by Arnold Bennett

It was a mincing, maudlin, finicking face—it irritated her intensely.
Extract from : « The Sorcery Club » by Elliott O'Donnell

He's a good-looking chap, too, though rather too finicking for my taste.
Extract from : « In Luck at Last » by Walter Besant

The less, he mused, that one had to do with finicking feelings in this world the better.
Extract from : « The Pool in the Desert » by Sara Jeanette Duncan

He kept his ship in apple-pie order, which would have been seamanlike enough but for a finicking touch in its details.
Extract from : « The Mirror of the Sea » by Joseph Conrad

I can't have you having all sorts of finicking ideas about not doing this and not doing the other before servants.
Extract from : « Vera » by Elisabeth von Arnim

His later work is undoubtedly more mannered, more “finicking,” less simple, less broadly effective.
Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 » by Various

Nigg′ler, one who trifles; Nigg′ling, fussiness, finicking work.
Extract from : « Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) » by Various

Antonyms for finicking

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