fussy
adjective
excessively busy with trifles; anxious or particular about petty details.
fussily
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a word derived from
fussy.
Example Sentences
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Other fancy restaurants of the time were fussily French with cushy banquettes, but Johnson embraced a brash, unadorned rectangularity, with 20-foot ceilings and massive windows shaded only by curtains of rippling, undulating chains.
From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2019
Ostensibly an unremarkable London bureaucrat, Mycroft is unmarried, slightly overweight, sedentary and rather fussily set in his ways, passing most of his evenings at the ultra-quiet Diogenes Club.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 2, 2018
For each defendant, the state recommended a jail sentence comically and fussily commensurate with his exact crime: Manafort faces 151 to 181 months of imprisonment; Gates faces 121 to 151.
From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2017
That bit-by-bit effort has yielded songs that sound as effortless and indelible as their first record’s, albeit more fussily produced this time round.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 6, 2017
The meal, served on square white plates, is fussily arranged, the portions microscopically small.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
