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finical

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fin·i·cal  (fn-kl)
adj.
Finicky.
[Probably from fine.]
fini·cal·ly adv.
fini·cal·ness n.
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Adj.1.finical - exacting especially about details; "a finicky eater"; "fussy about clothes"; "very particular about how her food was prepared"
finicky, picky, fussy, particular
fastidious - giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness; "a fastidious and incisive intellect"; "fastidious about personal cleanliness"
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Whereas, some merchant ships crossing each other's wake in the mid-Atlantic, will oftentimes pass on without so much as a single word of recognition, mutually cutting each other on the high seas, like a brace of dandies in Broadway; and all the time indulging, perhaps, in finical criticism upon each other's rig.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
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