fusspot

Example Sentences

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We expect a proud paterfamilias to step forth, instead of which a bearded fusspot emerges: distracted, half attentive, already preparing to leave on a business trip.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 7, 2018

The strongest performances — Dan Hiatt’s fusspot Polonius, Lozano’s regally detached Gertrude — combine color with clarity.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 2017

But he is also, and perhaps unintentionally, a creep: a young antiquarian fusspot in 1950s-style suits and spectator shoes with no friends.

From Slate • Dec. 15, 2016

On the one hand there's Alma Rattenbury, married to a doddering fusspot, who took up with a young man, went wild, and got blamed.

From The Guardian • Apr. 2, 2011

Keira Knightley cuts a spirited dash as smart cookie Elizabeth "Lizzie" Bennet, with Brenda Blethyn and Donald Sutherland doing just fine as her fusspot mama and patient p�re.

From Time Magazine Archive