fusspot
Americannoun
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fusspots
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The Tuscan setting is glorious, and Emma Thompson’s thoughtful Beatrice is more than a match for Branagh’s fusspot Benedick.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 8, 2019
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
Cornelius's Abul Hassan is no Figaro, but an eccentric fusspot whose interference in the relationship between layabout Nureddin and posh Margiana seems set to ruin it until the Caliph intervenes.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 9, 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
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