Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a fussy or bustling manner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a fussy manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
fussy manner
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a fussy manner
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Examples
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The doctor, having felt in the ice-chest and found that the ice was all melted to tepid water, opened a bottle of beer and called fussily to the servants to set some more bottles swinging in a cradle of wet straw.
Burmese Days 2002
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Interpreting this phrase fussily, a little used car is a small second-hand car, but most readers would infer that the car hasn’t been used much.
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Interpreting this phrase fussily, a little used car is a small second-hand car, but most readers would infer that the car hasn’t been used much.
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Mick Lowe had turned his head too sharply toward the sudden commotion and strained a muscle in his neck, which he fussily rubbed and stretched for the rest of the evening.
O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011
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Any harm to the "ordinary investor" would seem rather fussily abstract, even nonexistent, compared to the concrete and smelly wrongs exposed in the courtroom.
Temporary Sanity in Insider-Trading Law Jr. Holman W. Jenkins 2011
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Mick Lowe had turned his head too sharply toward the sudden commotion and strained a muscle in his neck, which he fussily rubbed and stretched for the rest of the evening.
O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011
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Mick Lowe had turned his head too sharply toward the sudden commotion and strained a muscle in his neck, which he fussily rubbed and stretched for the rest of the evening.
O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011
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Mick Lowe had turned his head too sharply toward the sudden commotion and strained a muscle in his neck, which he fussily rubbed and stretched for the rest of the evening.
O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011
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Mick Lowe had turned his head too sharply toward the sudden commotion and strained a muscle in his neck, which he fussily rubbed and stretched for the rest of the evening.
O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011
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Mick Lowe had turned his head too sharply toward the sudden commotion and strained a muscle in his neck, which he fussily rubbed and stretched for the rest of the evening.
O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011
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