fussiness
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What we call "fussiness" with a disapproving tone, is often anxiety and sensitivity, says consultant counselling psychologist Dr Ritika Suk Birah.
From BBC ● Dec. 21, 2025
She criticized the CDC for glossing over side effects such as fever, sleepiness and fussiness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2025
That intrinsic level of care is present in “Hard Truths,” but without the fussiness that often feels present in films made by notorious perfectionists.
From Salon ● Jan. 10, 2025
Researchers found that 60% of infants whose parents had to switch formulas had experienced issues such as fussiness, gas, spit-up, constipation and diarrhea.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 7, 2024
The boxlike room, stripped of all embellishment or parlor fussiness, a room that wished to be timeless or ahistorical, and there, in the middle of it, my deeply historical, timeworn grandmother.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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