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An irritable petulant feeling
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fussiness
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Word definitions for fussiness in dictionaries
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fussiness \Fuss"i*ness\, n. The quality of being fussy.
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The state of being fussy.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an irritable petulant feeling [syn: irritability , crossness , fretfulness , peevishness , petulance , choler ] unnecessary elaborateness in details
Usage examples of fussiness.
At thirty, he was developing a slight fussiness of manner which reminded Servilia too painfully of that underbred upstart from Arpinum, Marcus Tullius Cicero.
The boxlike room, stripped of all embellishment or parlor fussiness, a room that wished to be timeless or ahistorical, and there, in the middle of it, my deeply historical, timeworn grandmother.
Gould was a retired bank manager, with a permanently soured expression and straight-backed, anal fussiness that rankled Andi before they were even introduced.
He pities the room - its darkness as if even weak windowlight would penetrate her skin and accelerate the destruction of her cells, its hushed funereal fussiness.