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
That best choice, the show’s judging panel decided, was a white man: Jason Mann, an abstemious, film-purist fussbudget who avoided junk food and at one point used the term “movie-ish” as a pejorative.
From New York Times • Nov. 1, 2015
He had taken a liking to the General, whom war, to his mind, had transformed from a gallant old fussbudget of a beau to a brave and simple gentleman.
From The Old Blood by Palmer, Frederick
