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单词 finicking
释义

finicking

/ˈfɪnɪkɪŋ /
adjective
Another term for finicky.The onus of humiliating reverses was also cast on a supposedly finicking, too easily exhausted, and sometimes unreliable ‘native force’....
  • The captain always ate his eggs without any remark; his silence accused me of finicking.
  • Deeply attached to old values, and seeing the rapidly changing world about him through the distorting lens of a pedantic and snobbish literary tradition, Libanius was vain, petty, and wrapped in finicking antiquarianism.

Origin

Mid 17th century: from finical + -ing2.

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