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

I wouldn’t have minded that with James, whose fussbudget pomposity is always worth some deflation.

From New York Times • Jul. 28, 2021

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

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