Thesaurus / fussy
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Like some of the other prizes here, this legacy from when Azerbaijan was under Soviet rule is fussy going for the baker.
THIS NEW AZERBAIJANI BAKERY OFFERS STORIES AS GOOD AS ITS PASTRIESTOM SIETSEMAFEBRUARY 26, 2021WASHINGTON POSTToddlers want to touch and push and pull, but they can get easily frustrated if something is too technical or fussy.
TOYS AND SCIENCE GIFTS FOR KIDS OF ALL AGESPOPSCI COMMERCE TEAMFEBRUARY 18, 2021POPULAR-SCIENCEThe best science gifts for kids over $50 will be educational, well made, not overly complicated and fussy, and allow for many hours of play and use.
TOYS AND SCIENCE GIFTS FOR KIDS OF ALL AGESPOPSCI COMMERCE TEAMFEBRUARY 18, 2021POPULAR-SCIENCEOne day as we were going out for breakfast, she was extremely irritable and fussy that morning.
HOW TO FIND FREEDOM FROM GRIEFJASMINE GRANTJANUARY 7, 2021ESSENCE.COMOf its options, she says Philodendron bipennifolium and Rhaphidophora tetrasperma aren’t “super fussy.”
ONLINE PLANT SELLERS ARE HAVING A MOMENT. HERE’S WHERE TO SHOP.LINDSEY ROBERTSNOVEMBER 11, 2020WASHINGTON POSTFarewell, too, energetic and laborious dancer, my partner's middle-aged fussy cousin!
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, VOLUME 67, NUMBER 414, APRIL, 1850VARIOUS"I don't know," he muttered in the face of a fussy little woman, who jumped aside to let him pass.
SINISTER STREET, VOL. 1COMPTON MACKENZIEWe could get along with her all right; sometimes she is splendid, even if she is so fussy.
TABITHA AT IVY HALLRUTH ALBERTA BROWNBy calling fussy little strikes often enough I could have kept the profits close to the zero mark.
THE IRON PUDDLERJAMES J. DAVISI wish my wife was not so fussy, though that is a kind of thing, Lady Eustace, that one has to expect from young wives.
THE PRIME MINISTERANTHONY TROLLOPEWORDS RELATED TO FUSSY
- analytical
- belittling
- biting
- calumniatory
- captious
- carping
- caviling
- cavillous
- censorious
- censuring
- choleric
- condemning
- critic
- cutting
- cynical
- demanding
- demeaning
- derogatory
- diagnostic
- disapproving
- discerning
- discriminating
- disparaging
- exacting
- exceptive
- finicky
- fussy
- hairsplitting
- humbling
- hypercritical
- lowering
- nagging
- niggling
- nit-picking
- overcritical
- particular
- penetrating
- reproachful
- sarcastic
- satirical
- scolding
- severe
- sharp
- trenchant
- withering
- abundant
- accurate
- all-inclusive
- amplified
- at length
- blow-by-blow
- circumstantial
- circumstantiated
- clocklike
- complete
- complicated
- comprehensive
- copious
- definite
- described
- developed
- disclosed
- elaborate
- elaborated
- enumerated
- exact
- exhausting
- exhaustive
- finicky
- full
- fussy
- individual
- individualized
- intricate
- meticulous
- minute
- narrow
- nice
- point-by-point
- precise
- seriatim
- specific
- specified
- thorough
- unfolded
- busy
- careful
- complex
- complicated
- decorated
- detailed
- elegant
- embellished
- exact
- extensive
- extravagant
- fancy
- fussy
- garnished
- high-tech
- highly wrought
- imposing
- knotty
- labored
- labyrinthine
- luxurious
- many-faceted
- minute
- ornamented
- ornate
- ostentatious
- overdone
- overworked
- painstaking
- perfected
- plush
- posh
- precise
- prodigious
- refined
- showy
- skillful
- sophisticated
- studied
- thorough
- with all the extras
- with all the options
- with bells and whistles
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