fussy

Baseball can be a fussy sport, hidebound to tradition.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

The result was a gripping performance enriched by tonal beauty, subtle dynamic shading and precise but never fussy playing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

A violinist who covered music from 1925 to 1947, she was a modernist with her finger on the pulse of the times and stood in refreshing contrast to the fussy East Coast male critics.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

Planetary scientists call this the "Goldilocks zone", after the fairy tale girl who was fussy about the temperature of her porridge.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

Now Florence’s mama hadn’t a particle of taste, and Amy suffered deeply at having to wear a red instead of a blue bonnet, unbecoming gowns, and fussy aprons that did not fit.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

Large single-family landlords have become fussier about where they want to own property and how much they pay.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2025

Parlakian said parents should expect babies who experience the effects of the fires to be disregulated, fussier, and harder to soothe.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2025

In Hussain's twist on the classic, she figures that ice cream "seems like the perfect shortcut" for the traditional — and fussier — custard.

From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2021

Panela is fussier and less predictable than table sugar, Mr. Quintero explained, because it contains all the components of the cane juice, not all of which can be adjusted.

From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2021

"Of course cipher communications are fussier," Bob said.

From Walter and the Wireless by William F. (William Frederick) Stecher

In my mind, it's hosting in the fussiest way possible.

From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2022

The fussiest part of the recipe is chilling everything and then removing the fat before reheating and pureeing the sauce.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 27, 2021

Has the galaxy’s fussiest droid, C-3PO, somehow been turned to the dark side, as suggested by his glowing red eyes?

From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2019

He quickly drew the ire and ridicule of the fussiest corners of the Internet when a photo of him, crucially obscuring his explanatory sign, was posted to Reddit.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 23, 2014

They’d always been his fussiest fungi: the first to mope when the rains were too much, the first to stink when the rains were too little.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman