fussbudget

Example Sentences

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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

To put him on a silly reality show is to say that he committed a silly offense and that you’re silly if you still make a big deal about it — everybody lies, everybody does what they’ve got to do to get by, everything’s a joke, just stop being such a fussbudget and enjoy the show.

From New York Times

Nattily dressed with a thick full beard, Hire is something of a standoffish fussbudget.

From Los Angeles Times

Their seemingly opposite natures — he’s a fussbudget, especially about his garden, while she has let her own yard go to ruin — are the main source of the film’s shambling forward momentum.

From Washington Post

Galifianakis steals the show as the friendly fussbudget in a performance we've come to expect from him.

From Los Angeles Times