finical
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- finicality noun
- finically adverb
- finicalness noun
- unfinical adjective
Etymology
Origin of finical
Example Sentences
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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.
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.
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
"That's what I get for playing the finical idiot!" he groaned.
From A Romance in Transit by Lynde, Francis
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