finical
Americanadjective
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Origin of finical
Example Sentences
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Sometimes the weft of his spinning loosens, is overdrawn or finical.
From Time Magazine Archive
In an adept supporting cast, Fred Tiden is outstanding as the finical son-in-law who cannot bear to have small children tumbling about him.
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Canadians have grown heartily weary of the King.'s man they have now, dull, finical Vere Brabazon Ponsonby, ninth Earl of Bessborough.
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Slow-painting, finical Grant Wood spent months boning up on costumes, background for Parson Weems' Fable, then did a full-scale preliminary drawing of it.
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“This must be Wolstang,” thought I: “but it is not his sneeze either; it is too sharp and finical for him; however, let us see.”
From Tales from "Blackwood," Volume 2 by Various
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