fussbudget

Example Sentences

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As the prissy fussbudget Martin Lomax prepares his beloved gardens for public gaze, he realizes that he needs to keep people away from the cesspit, now the final resting place of more than a few bodies.

From Washington Post

I wouldn’t have minded that with James, whose fussbudget pomposity is always worth some deflation.

From New York Times

I’ve been known to string the so-called stringless varieties, too — perhaps 20 pods in a pound will have true end-to-end strings, but all have chewy strings on their ends, and I am a fussbudget.

From Seattle Times

He is a humorless fussbudget forever fiddling with the dials of his instruments while she, a veteran balloon pilot, is a showboat and a performer with a gift for exciting the launch crowd.

From Los Angeles Times

Through her preening virtue, she has revealed herself to be more Lucy from “Peanuts” than Erin Brockovich — a cartoonish fussbudget stumping for blue ribbons and bows rather than a whistleblower acting in the service of the greater good.

From Washington Post