fussbudget
Example Sentences
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Perhaps this makes me a fussbudget, but I think there’s a relation between sloppy speech and sloppy thinking.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 18, 2022
He is a humorless fussbudget forever fiddling with the dials of his instruments while she, a veteran balloon pilot, is a showboat and a performer with a gift for exciting the launch crowd.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2019
On the show, Merrick is something of a fussbudget, which comports very well with the first article his newspaper ever ran, a complaint about the difficulties of running a newspaper in Deadwood:
From Slate ● Jun. 2, 2019
Bob Balaban, seen leading a rehearsal, plays Preston Savitz, an effete fussbudget who, I was surprised to learn, was “inspired by” Lincoln Kirstein who, among his many accomplishments, helped found the New York City Ballet.
From New York Times ● Feb. 6, 2014
You know what a fussbudget I am about my own things.
From Jane Journeys On by Mitchell, Ruth Comfort
