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fussiness::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | choler, crossness, fretfulness, irritability, peevishness, petulance |
| Type of | ill humour, distemper, ill humor |
| Has types | touchiness, testiness, tetchiness, pet |
| Derivation | fussy |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | ornateness, elaborateness |
| Derivation | fussy |
Examples of fussiness
fussiness
Phrase answered phrase logically and left little room for a soloist's fussiness.
From the latimes.com
They're made with simple skill and craft but without showiness or fussiness.
From the guardian.co.uk
The fussiness and old-world excess nearly overwhelms some truly extraordinary cooking.
From the bloomberg.com
It summons up a world of pretension, self-absorption, fussiness, neediness.
From the independent.co.uk
Her food is lusty but subtle, with notes of refinement minus any fussiness.
From the sfgate.com
Resist the urge to shove the pacifier in at the first sign of fussiness.
From the timesunion.com
Recently, there has been a move against all that 19th-century fussiness.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Further fussiness can be alleviated with a more elaborate pillow menu.
From the au.news.yahoo.com
Contemporary fussiness in details fights with archeological sanctimony.
From the bloomberg.com
- Irritability: an irritable petulant feeling
- Unnecessary elaborateness in details
- (fussy) crabbed: annoyed and irritable
- (fussy) busy: overcrowded or cluttered with detail; "a busy painting"; "a fussy design"
- (fussy) finical: exacting especially about details; "a finicky eater"; "fussy about clothes"; "very particular about how her food was prepared"
- 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 kmu00B2 (0.386 squ00A0mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
- The state of being fussy
- (fussy) (1) FORMAL with negative face. For a QuickTime movie of this sign, see ASL browser - fussy. (2) FT of [flat F] put snuff in each nostril in a fussy manner.
- (fussy) easily upset, irritable
