finical
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- finicality noun
- finically adverb
- finicalness noun
- unfinical adjective
Etymology
Origin of finical
Example Sentences
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The greedy newspapers, swollen with the story, alarmed the finical Florenz.
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
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
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
Because crows eat almost anything they can find, and pick up a good living where other birds, more finical or less clever, would starve, they rarely need to migrate; but they are great rovers.
From Birds Every Child Should Know by Blanchan, Neltje
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