fussiness

[ UK /fˈʌsɪnəs/ ]
NOUN
  1. unnecessary elaborateness in details
  2. an irritable petulant feeling
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How To Use fussiness In A Sentence

  • That aesthetic would require clean, simple lines, and no fussiness.
  • I wasn't sure quite why I had resisted the array of baubles with which she had tried to further bedizen me; perhaps it was mere dislike of fussiness. Drums of Autumn
  • It has two faults: the author occasionally crosses the line between striking description and writerly fussiness.
  • So I decided against fussiness, and went for an almost folkish skirt to mid calf, strappy heeled sandals and a lacy bodice-style top.
  • Colic and fussiness have been attributed to elevated serum concentrations of fluoxetine and its metabolite in nursing infants.
  • Pletnev seems eager to convince us that these are very important works, and so everything is inflected, almost to the point of fussiness.
  • He is a fantastically meticulous actor but if he isn't reined in this detail becomes fussiness.
  • I can only guess that this baby we have here will ask of me many similar things in the coming years: tonight, while jogging from the dining room to the living room to the front room through the little bedroom and into the dining room again to soothe some fussiness (the baby's, not mine) I made up some new, Theodore-centric lyrics for "Children of the Heavenly Father. Goodnight, France
  • The style, which simultaneously maximizes fussiness and vagueness — verbal operatives tend to be so abstract that almost anything can be related to, equilibrated with, adequated to anything else — caused me at last to mourn for Wordsworth. 'At the Far End of this Ongoing Enterprise...'
  • Nearly half 47% of UK single men attribute their long-term singledom to lack of confidence, 41% to shyness, 34% to fussiness and 31% to not being attractive enough. Archive 2008-01-01
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