Thesaurus / fussiness
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synonyms for fussiness
- adornment
- bauble
- decoration
- flashiness
- frill
- gaudiness
- knickknack
- meretriciousness
- ornament
- ostentation
- pretentiousness
- showiness
- tawdriness
- toy
- trinket
- fanciness
- fandangle
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How to use fussiness in a sentence
But he is a very sincere man; has neither show nor fussiness in him; and practices his duties with a strict, quiet regularity.
OUR CHURCHES AND CHAPELSATTICUSThe Australians, afflicted by our modern nervous fussiness, could not leave Chidley alone.
IMPRESSIONS AND COMMENTSHAVELOCK ELLISHe had never realized before the fussiness and bad taste of the architecture of this building, which was the heart of Monaco.
THE ENEMIES OF WOMENVICENTE BLASCO IBEZThey had to assume an indolent attitude in pure opposition to his fussiness.
THE HALF-HEARTEDJOHN BUCHANI thought there was the least touch of affectation of fussiness, but it may not be so.
THE LETTERS OF ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, VOLUME IIELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNINGHe is constitutionally incapable of the obsequious fussiness that belongs to commercial hospitality.
THINGS SEEN IN SPAINC. GASQUOINE HARTLEYStill I could not say a word, his fussiness and self-importance overcoming his inquisitiveness.
THE DISCOVERY OF THE SOURCE OF THE NILEJOHN HANNING SPEKERamage has that gift, and his zest never degenerates into the fussiness of many modern travellers.
ALONENORMAN DOUGLAS"But that is no reason why it should be all," I said to myself, and paid no attention to her little bashful fussiness.
NOT PRETTY, BUT PRECIOUSJOHN HAY, ET AL.None the less, the distinctive badge of all his tribe was and remained what the Greeks called fussiness (t psophodes).
THE CONFLICT OF RELIGIONS IN THE EARLY ROMAN EMPIRET. R. GLOVERWORDS RELATED TO FUSSINESS
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