finical
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The early city's friendly and explosive vulgarity still pains finical Denverites in dark, slick Frederick Bonfils' incredibly blatant Denver Post.
From Time Magazine Archive
He still writes perfectly, that is to say, with great solicitude for the antique rhythm and consonance of his finical phrases, but his passion for beautiful happenings has been lapped by the irony of surfeit.
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Famed among finical fight enthusiasts is the NBC team of Sam Taub & Bill Stern that works for Adam, describing right hooks and Homburgs with equal competency.
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About his productions he was superfinical, but not primarily for art's sake; being finical seemed to pay.
From Time Magazine Archive
The common Scots saying, on the sight of anything operose and finical, “he must have had little to do that made that!” might be put as epigraph on all the song-books of old France.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 3 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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