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Example sentences for "finical"

Lexicographically close words:
fings; fini; finial; finials; finibus; finicking; finicky; finikin; fining; finings
  1. The finical goosery of your neat sermon actor.

  2. There is nothing silly or finical about him.

  3. If, he says, the Whigs are too finical to join heartily with the popular advocates, the Reformers are too cold.

  4. But now to strike at the root of so many errors begotten by false Letters, besides a false finical speech according to the Letters, being illeterately litterate, as calf, haut, goust.

  5. We were dining at the home of a friend and one of these super-sensitive, finical sticklers for gentility was present.

  6. If your thought is worth anything, you can afford to laugh at some small violation of grammar, or the knocking over of some finical standard or other.

  7. She saw the man at last under Muller's weak finical ways, and the manly look he gave her.

  8. All that finical ceremony he would go through in the face of the enemy," thought Blecker, jumping down on the track.

  9. As a young man, I could conceive of his being finical in certain moods, but not now, when the gravity of age shed a venerable grace about him.

  10. Any of the finical little ladies yonder, had they been in her place, would have met this lover who gave no sign of love with all the self-respect and dignity of womanhood.

  11. This gentleman is a little finical and formal.

  12. She was finical to the point of absurdity even, which is often the fault of beauty, and perhaps a fault not altogether unbecoming, since its aim is the last elaboration of loveliness.

  13. But the explanation of the fact to a mere man, with his finical dependence on logic and all manner of foolishness in the way of reasoning, offered considerable difficulty.

  14. His finical delicacy was pained to a certain extent that the casting off her widow's weeds could be interpreted as a challenge to a fresh romance.

  15. She said to herself that this was no time or place for finical delicacy.

  16. So ask me what you want to know, Mark, and don't intrude on Nellie's finical delicacy.

  17. A finical fellow in the usual sense, but adopted as a nautical term by the mutineers of '97, to express the nobs, or heads of officers.

  18. An arc of the horizon intercepted between the nearest meridian and any distant object, either discovered by the eye and referred to a point on the compass, or resulting from finical proportion.

  19. The gross style consists in giving no detail, the finical in giving nothing else.

  20. A finical person; a fop; -- applied especially to English fops of about 1775.

  21. The finical goosery of your neat sermon actor.

  22. It seemed to him, in fact, that his finical mechanisms for the undoing of Mary Turner were in a fair way to be thwarted.

  23. But the police are out of sympathy with such finical methods.

  24. Spending most part of his time in finical dressing himself, to accompany his Mistriss, and with a Coach or Pair of Oars to do her all manner of caresses.

  25. If she be a finical one, that will go rich in her apparel, she'l fill the Shopkeepers Counters with your mony.

  26. Captain Frazer was in Cape Town; Carew was still in hospital at Johannesburg where, under the eyes of Alice Mellen and her cousin, he was fast resuming his old finical habits.

  27. But planning, like finical little Waring, that she should fall snugly into a fashionable set, Parisian gowns, a suitable marriage!

  28. But one night she had broken the finical apparatus to pieces, left a heap of bonbons for the children, scrawled a verse of good-bye with chalk on the blackboard, and taken to the road again without a penny.

  29. But of so fine a composition there is no call for finical criticism.

  30. Again, their art was more ornate, richer in costume, color, and detail than Florentine art; but it was also more finical and narrow in scope.

  31. And this, not in a small, finical way, but with a breadth of view and of treatment which are to-day the despair of painters.

  32. You cannot figure him as laboriously searching for the right word or painfully recasting the same sentence many times until he reached the form which suited his finical taste.

  33. Purism, finical style, fastidious delicacy (in the use of language), affected elegance.

  34. Here am I, accommodating myself to this finical Japan and dwindling down to its affected mannerism; I feel that my thoughts run in smaller grooves, my tastes incline to smaller things-things which suggest nothing greater than a smile.

  35. If his poems are sometimes finical and pedantic, his prose is quite free from affectation.

  36. He held the plough or the pen with the same firm, manly grasp; nor did he cut out poetry as we cut out watch-papers, with finical dexterity, nor from the same flimsy materials.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "finical" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.