Example Sentences

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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