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
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
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
On the one hand there's Alma Rattenbury, married to a doddering fusspot, who took up with a young man, went wild, and got blamed.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 2, 2011
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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