fusspot
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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
Beale came off as an angry fusspot in his scenes with Ophelia, and when he vowed to drink hot blood, it was clear he’d rather turn on the kettle and pick up a good novel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 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
Jack Hawkins's Tesman is not the doddering fusspot we used to get but a young, properly ambitious scholar.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 11, 2012
He is also surrounded by a high-quality cast including Michelle Dockery as an angst-ridden Ophelia, Hugh Ross as a fusspot Polonius and Colin Tierney as a likable Horatio.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 23, 2010
For a few fusspots, critiquing what the show gets wrong is another.
From Salon ● Mar. 19, 2022
We make jokes about those fusspots in the United States Senate.
From Slate ● Feb. 19, 2022
What we soon realize is that this novel marks the climax of the author’s fascination with moaners, groaners, fusspots, and other oracles of self-pity.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 5, 2017
