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Fussiness   Listen
Fussiness

noun
1.
An irritable petulant feeling.  Synonyms: choler, crossness, fretfulness, irritability, peevishness, petulance.
2.
Unnecessary elaborateness in details.





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"Fussiness" Quotes from Famous Books



... pretending to inspect it, and rendered myself hateful to the head of the douane by asking various foolish and inept questions, on which Lady Georgina insisted. When I had finished this silly and uncongenial task—for I am not by nature fussy, and it is hard to assume fussiness as another person's proxy—I returned to our coupe which I had arranged for in London. To my great amazement, I found the Cantankerous Old Lady and the egregious Count comfortably seated there. 'Monsieur has been good enough to accept a place in our carriage,' she observed, ...
— Miss Cayley's Adventures • Grant Allen


Words linked to "Fussiness" :   distemper, pet, touchiness, tetchiness, ill humor, testiness, fussy, elaborateness, ill humour, ornateness, crossness


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