Sentence:  He was no <WSD>lily-handed</WSD> gardener, no finger-tip lover,who, with an ivory-handled "sécateur", snips off minute dead twigs,and selects a rosebud for his buttonhole, but went about his business with the tender ruthlessness that true gardening demands. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Fastidious and foppish.