lily-fingered

They were pretty desperate to find someone who would do most anything, ie: the dirty work the rest of the lily-fingered Foul Language poets had no stomach for.

The Great San Francisco Poetry Wars, 13 2010

Why, she would think it was a social disgrace if her poor, weak, little lily-fingered, sissy sort of a boy had to earn his living with honest toil.

Acres of Diamonds 2008

"It's the lily-fingered people of your stripe who make reform a byword and a laughing-stock."

The Henchman Mark Lee Luther

It was a good beginning, and of course the young man was very much pleased to show Sheila that he was no mere lily-fingered idler about town.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 Various

The white-collared and the lily-fingered cannot function there.

Poor Man's Rock Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926

On the contrary, you would have thought that his hands alone, from which he could never quite free the grease and grit, would have caused some feeling of repugnance among the lily-fingered.

Gigolo Edna Ferber 1926

A sort of pride that won't allow any bunch of lily-fingered crooks to make me a party to any dirty deal.

North of Fifty-Three Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926

Do you think for a minute I'd let a bunch of lily-fingered crooks put anything like that over on simple, square-dealing fellows who were too honest to protect their own interests from sharp practice?

North of Fifty-Three Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926

Why, she would think it was a social disgrace if her poor, weak, little lily-fingered, sissy sort of a boy had to earn his living with honest toil.

Acres of Diamonds and His Life and Achievements 1915

Why, she would think it was a social disgrace if her poor, weak, little lily-fingered, sissy sort of a boy had to earn his living with honest toil.

Acres of Diamonds Conwell, Russell H 1915