Meaning & use
Finically
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In an excessively fussy, dainty, or overparticular manner.
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She finically rearranged each fork until the table setting matched her sketch exactly.
He ate finically, cutting his food into impossibly small, uniform pieces.
A note on using this word
The adverb comes from the archaic adjective 'finical,' meaning excessively fastidious about small details; both words are now rare and mostly literary.
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