Crossword clues for fussiness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fussiness \Fuss"i*ness\, n. The quality of being fussy.
Wiktionary
n. The state of being fussy.
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.