Words similar to fussy

Example sentences for: fussy

How can you use “fussy” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

For all McPhee's expertise at crafting a narrative, it feels unnecessarily bloated; for all his famous humility, there's a mild vanity in its fussy perfectionism.
Instead of love at first sight, Lidie's romance with cold, fussy Thomas is slow and confusing, and halfway through the book, just as she's prepared to investigate the possibility that they're in love, he's suddenly murdered.
When I first lived in Seattle in the mid-'70s, it was a fussy little hamlet, Mayberry NW, where Meat Is Murder food co-ops abounded and the 40-hour work week was considered indentured servitude.
It is tempting to relate the yellowhammer's name to yammer (German jammern ), referring to its fussy call, a rapid chi-chi-chi-chi-chi... chweee , traditionally rendered little-bit-of-bread-and-no-cheese.
Most of the 130-odd sources are, quite naturally, UK in origin and persuasion, with a fair sprinkling of US periodicals; others looked at include Australia, Canada, Malaysia, Turkey, Hong Kong, and France (for The International Herald Tribune ). Ayto writes well, and his Introduction (actually, to get fussy about it, Foreword or Preface) sets forth clearly the aims and purposes of this collection of neologisms.