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
Mr. Sondheim’s first professional show business job was not in the theater at all; through the agency representing Hammerstein, he was hired to write for a 1950s television comedy, “Topper,” about a fussbudget banker haunted by a pair of urbane ghosts.
From New York Times
I wouldn’t have minded that with James, whose fussbudget pomposity is always worth some deflation.
From New York Times
I’ve been known to string the so-called stringless varieties, too — perhaps 20 pods in a pound will have true end-to-end strings, but all have chewy strings on their ends, and I am a fussbudget.
From Seattle Times
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
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