FUSSY in a Sentence

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13 example sentences for FUSSY, such as:

1. She is not fussy about her food.
2. Leonora was fussy about her looks.
3. But he always was so nervous and fussy and old maidish.
4. Of course, they had good reason to be fussy on such a night.
5. It can indeed be fussy, filling with ornament what should be empty space.

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 Meanings and Examples of FUSSY
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fussy
 a.  easily upset; given to bouts of ill temper; full of superfluous details
Classic Sentence:
1  Mammy hurried Scarlett up the dark stairs, muttering fussy remarks about cold hands and thin shoes and Scarlett looked meek and was well content.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
2  But he always was so nervous and fussy and old maidish.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
3  "I'd think a man as fussy and old maidish as Frank would keep things tidier," she thought, scrubbing her grimy hands with her handkerchief.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
4  For fussy discussion they had a rich, full genius, and their example developed in Kennicott a tendency to the same form of affectionate flaying.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
5  They dwelt in a fussy, scroll-work house, painted white and buried in thick evergreens, with a fussy white fence and barn.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XI
6  He was a short, thick-set man, carefully dressed, with a round, good-natured countenance, and something rather fussy and particular in his appearance.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
7  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.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FOUR
8  Of course, they had good reason to be fussy on such a night.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE DEAD
9  not two paces away, Simonov repeated, accompanying me to the front door with a fussy air which did not suit him at all.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: III
Example Sentence:
1  Dentists criticize the practice of giving fussy children sweets to pacify them.
2  It can indeed be fussy, filling with ornament what should be empty space.
3  Leonora was fussy about her looks.
4  She is not fussy about her food.