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
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
About his productions he was superfinical, but not primarily for art's sake; being finical seemed to pay.
From Time Magazine Archive
Like many men who make no pretensions to deserve the term handsome, he was inordinately finical about his person.
From Linda Lee, Incorporated A Novel by Vance, Louis Joseph
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