Finicking [adjective]

Consequently he is never finicking in his phraseology, and seldom final.

She set him down in her own mind as "too finicking," while his good looks did not happen to be of a type that appealed to her.

Yet there was nothing finicking about their politeness—it had the public-school touch, and, though sedulous, was virile.

He went on eating in a leisurely, finicking sort of way, though he consumed very little food actually.

I'll have none of our men livin' in model villages under the squire and the parson—it's all finicking nonsense.

Halley, on the other hand, almost despised accurate observations as finicking.

Pelle sat there getting angrier and angrier at his finicking tone.

I don't hold with such finicking ways, and well you know it.

You Haystouns are high-strung, finicking people, on whom idleness sits badly.

It was not well drawn; it was too finicking; the pillars in the background were grotesquely squat.