(superl) Making a fuss; disposed to make an unnecessary ado about trifles; overnice; fidgety.
Example Sentences:
(1) Infants in the third quartile were fussy at the commencement of the period and became gradually more placid from the fifth week of life.
(2) The results indicate that intra-uterine sounds calm 90 per cent of babies who are fussy or crying but have no evident effect on babies who are awake but merely alert or who are slightly drowsy.
(3) You can't grow bananas in Alaska or broccoli at the equator unless you're willing to expend a lot of money to create a very controlled environment, and even then, it's going to be fussy and painstaking.
(4) He is yet to find somewhere despite being described as not a particularly "fussy buyer".
(5) Individual differences in positive, negative, sociability, and soothability were related to the questionnaire scores of fussy-difficult and unadaptability.
(6) The distribution of spectral energy among four types of infant vocalizations was compared via computerized spectral analyses of "pain-induced," "fussy," and "hungry" cries and "cooing" of 30 2-6-month-old infants.
(7) I just don't like Michelin-starred restaurants that are too fussy.
(8) You couldn’t do that today without calling it grooming, which I suspect the author would see as a piece of fussy editorialising with no place in fiction.
(9) "The display of works of art, for example, is to be fussy about what colour pictures are hung on - at what height they're hung.
(10) Overall 27% of children had febrile (greater than 38 degrees C) reactions, 62% became fussy and 79% had a local reaction.
(11) "Dyson Cinetic cyclones are so efficient at separating microscopic particles that everything gets thrust into the bin, and you can forget about fussy filters.” Ten years' of vacuuming According to Dyson’s testing, its new line of Cinetic cleaners can perform ten years’ worth of vacuum cleaning without needing to replace or wash their filters, which equates to sucking up two tonnes of dust.
(12) I inform them that I will be turning up with a set of index cards on which I have jotted down key points, but will not be boring my audience to tears with fiddly slides consisting of flying text, fussy fonts or photo montages.
(13) Parents were advised to seek prompt attention if symptoms of earache, fussiness, or fever recurred at any time during the 30-day study period.
(14) Analyses showed that female infants who were unable to complete the habituation task were reported as being more fussy and unadaptable.
(15) One famous product was Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup , a morphine and alcohol concoction that was marketed to parents of fussy children as a “perfectly harmless and pleasant” way to produce a “natural quiet sleep, by relieving the child from pain”.
(16) The remark catches his combination of asceticism and elegance: an American journalist once described him as "a haute-couture Gandalf", a wizard who is a little too fussy about his wardrobe.
(17) Visual inspection indicated that "pain-induced" cries could be differentiated from "fussy" and "hungry" cries and that "cooing" could be differentiated from all cries on the bases of (1) the relative amplitude levels of the high-frequency components; (2) the average fundamental frequency; and (3) the overall spectral energy levels.
(18) NOFT infants were found to be more fussy, demanding, and unsociable.
(19) It is concluded that prophylactic acetaminophen as given in this study had a moderating effect on fever, pain, and fussiness after diphtheria and tetanus toxoids and pertussis immunization.
(20) In the latter, he played Martin Bryce, a fussy busybody unusually preoccupied with law and order.
Fusty
Definition:
(superl) Moping.
(superl) Moldy; musty; ill-smelling; rank.
Example Sentences:
(1) Simply, Apple is a gigantic company, and iOS in particular is seen as being at a crossroads: Android has overtaken it in sales terms and many critics say it offers users more flexibility – so what's Apple going to do to stop the iPhone looking fusty?
(2) It is thought that her biggest challenge will be helping M&S clothes, which have been criticised as fusty, appeal to a younger audience, something she had experience of while working at Jaeger.
(3) The contributing elements to boundaries of the round window niche are superiorly the tegmen fossula fenestra rotunda (roof support), inferiorly the fustis (depth) and area concamerata, anteriorly the sustentaculum (support) and postis anterior (anterior pillar), and posteriorly the postis posterior (posterior pillar) and the subiculum (underlying supporting structure).
(4) He has transformed the image of Burberry from a fusty, aging brand worn by middle-aged golfers or ripped off for the football terraces into a modern global empire.
(5) In her slightly fusty offices off Drury Lane, Michel enthuses about the new TV and internet-based deals for clients, from Simon Schama to Twiggy (she has a planned musical), and garden writer Sarah Raven, Michel's first client.
(6) Wednesday gave the lie to the idea that our young people are thoroughly post-ideological creatures, with no fight in them; if even the most fusty newspapers are worried about the chasm that separates the government from the so-called squeezed middle, you can bet that the politics of class may yet make an unexpected comeback.
(7) Credit unions have had a fusty reputation in the past, restricting their membership to people in certain professions or to small community groups.
(8) This is fusty, old-school outrage, spluttered in your mind's eye by a swivel-eyed ex-colonel with dangerously high blood pressure.
(9) To begin with, it was a different kind of image problem: in Georgian society gin was considered rackety and sordid, not fusty and old-fashioned as it was in the swinging 60s.
(10) His image is fusty and secretive, but he's the first prime minister to sit in an open-plan office in Downing Street.
(11) In 2006, Ahrendts got a call from fellow American Rose Marie Bravo who had been busy resuscitating the fusty old British brand Burberry .
(12) Critical verdict Self knits a dense patchwork of high-minded low living (he ascribes the "weirdly fusty narrative voice in some of my work" to his cerebral childhood).
(13) It's an interesting cultural moment: on the one hand, the self-appointed cyberhustler experts in the "future of news" spend their time mocking the fustiness of old media; on the other hand, a star online destination wants to sound more like one of its paper-based predecessors.
(14) Here's Purcell meeting David Lodge at a rave (Love Is a Bourgeois Construct), dirty techno inspired by Michael Gambon's description of theatre (Shouting in the Evening), a collaboration with Example which doesn't sound fusty, but fresh (Thursday) plus tons of ambition, life, light and noise.
(15) With its crab cakes, wedge salad and a range of steaks up to a mahoosive 48oz porterhouse, it’s a magnificent and mildly fusty slice of unreconstructed, Rat Pack-era Americana.
(16) The documentary, she says, painted her as "the forward-looking, thrusting, blond, ball-breaking editor versus the fusty inherited family business".
(17) We expect Poussins to inhabit a zone of studious murmuring and fusty hauteur.
(18) Take it to a bookshop The fusty old book business may still be a lifeline for self-published authors and its collapse hurts all authors.
(19) The Union Jack backdrop and jacket represent both a punky subversion of a national symbol and a serious statement about the rebranding of a fusty, static, class-ridden country as the international centre of a synaesthetic youth culture.
(20) I don't see why fusty tradition, principally upheld by the FTSE-Ferrari crowd, should insist on it as the professional norm.