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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Plus, stored furniture doesn’t always fare well unless fussily packed and cared for — a job you fobbed off on your sister.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 6, 2023
Earl’s home is an airless, tidily ordered sanctum of records and movies fussily cataloged on index cards.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2022
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
“I don’t want to draw attention to them,” Liam Payne had said fussily on stage.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 2, 2019
I busied myself with my tent, fussily made it into a little home.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
