fussily

fuss·y

(fŭs′ē)

adj. fuss·i·er, fuss·i·est

1. Easily upset; given to bouts of ill temper: a fussy baby.

2. Paying great or excessive attention to personal tastes and appearance; fastidious: He was always fussy about clothes.

3. Calling for or requiring great attention to sometimes trivial details: a fussy actuarial problem.

4. Full of superfluous details: "It can indeed be fussy, filling with ornament what should be empty space" (H.D.F. Kitto).

fuss′i·ly adv.

fuss′i·ness n.

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Adv.

fussily - in a fussy manner; "he spoke to her fussily"

Translations

بِتَدقيق في الأمور التافِهَه

úzkostlivě

kræsentoverpylretoverpyntet

übertrieben

de facon tatillonne

kicsinyeskedve

meî smámunasemi

telâşlatitizlikle

过分装饰地过分讲究地

fussily

[ˈfʌsɪlɪ] ADV

1. (= demandingly) (pej) → quisquillosamente; (= scrupulously) → meticulosamente, escrupulosamente

2. (= elaborately) [designed, dressed] → de manera recargada

3. (= nervously) → nerviosamente

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

fussily

[ˈfʌsɪli] adv

[arrange] → de façon tarabiscotée

[ornate] → de façon tarabiscotée; [accurate, bureaucratic] → de façon méticuleuse

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

fussily

adv (pej)

(= painstakingly) adjust, check → übertrieben sorgfältig; accurate → peinlich; legalistic → übertrieben

(= ornately) → überladen; fussily designed wrought-iron gates → schmiedeeiserne Tore mit verschnörkeltem Muster; fussily dressed → verspielt gekleidet

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

fussily

[ˈfʌsɪlɪ] adv → meticolosamente
she was fussily dressed → era carica di fronzoli

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

fuss

(fas) noun

unnecessary excitement, worry or activity, often about something unimportant. Don't make such a fuss.

verb

to be too concerned with or pay too much attention to (unimportant) details. She fusses over children.

ˈfussy adjective

1. too concerned with details; too particular; difficult to satisfy. She is very fussy about her food.

2. (of clothes etc) with too much decoration. a very fussy hat.

ˈfussily adverb

make a fuss of

to pay a lot of attention to. He always makes a fuss of his grandchildren.

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"How is it," she began, as usual in French, settling down briskly and fussily in the easy chair, "how is it Annette never got married?

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They could not sit down, because all Billina's chairs were roosting-poles made of silver; so they had to stand while the hen fussily showed them her treasures.

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"You won't forget to telephone about this guest of yours?" he asked fussily.

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While these words were being spoken, Pesca, happily and fussily unconscious of the irreparable wrong which the crockery had suffered at his hands, was dragging a large arm-chair to the opposite end of the room, so as to command us all three, in the character of a public speaker addressing an audience.

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A large bell rang in the lower regions -- quick, shambling footsteps pattered on the stone corridor outside -- the door opened suddenly -- and a tall lean yellow old man, sharp as to his eyes, shrewd as to his lips, fussily restless as to all his movements, entered the room, with two huge Labrador dogs at his heels, and took his seat in a violent hurry.

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"Yes, yes, I'll come," he answered, getting up fussily. "But I have something to see to."

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He adjusted his tie; he put his pipe between his lips, swung his walking-stick in a dandified manner, and alighted fussily from the lorry...Then he proceeded to make a speech.' In the novel, Benjamin Benjamin is actually a scoundrel donning the nationalist garb.

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Whether as a reaction to this or not, William Thomson's next move in 1733 was to issue a second, less ostentatious, edition of Orpheus Caledonius in two volumes, in a smaller, cheaper format, with recomposed arrangements in a less fussily ornate style.

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* My father always fussily reminds me of many issues, such as pay attention to electricity, not go to the sea-side, and not go to the crowded places.

Internet Addiction Motivation among Chinese Young People: A Qualitative Analysis

Most of the dogs are recognisable breeds, but not fussily so and there are plenty of miscellaneous mongrels.

Caston, Jane and Saldana, Carmen: Will You Help Doug Find His Dog?

strikes me as fussily academic) strolls, or to use his own set of verbs,

FOLLOWING YOU: SECOND PERSON IN WALT WHITMAN'S "AS I EBB'D WITH THE OCEAN OF LIFE"

The performance in the classroom is performed again by Baker's sometimes fussily reportorial prose and his book's overdetermined structure.