fussiness

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What we call "fussiness" with a disapproving tone, is often anxiety and sensitivity, says consultant counselling psychologist Dr Ritika Suk Birah.

From BBC • Dec. 21, 2025

That intrinsic level of care is present in “Hard Truths,” but without the fussiness that often feels present in films made by notorious perfectionists.

From Salon • Jan. 10, 2025

Researchers found that 60% of infants whose parents had to switch formulas had experienced issues such as fussiness, gas, spit-up, constipation and diarrhea.

From Science Daily • Mar. 7, 2024

Without Niles, whose symphonic fussiness almost makes Frasier seem like a regular guy, it’s hard to imagine Frasier existing.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 27, 2023

The boxlike room, stripped of all embellishment or parlor fussiness, a room that wished to be timeless or ahistorical, and there, in the middle of it, my deeply historical, timeworn grandmother.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides