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fussily

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fuss·y  (fs)
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).

fussi·ly adv.
fussi·ness n.
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Adv.1.fussily - in a fussy manner; "he spoke to her fussily"
Translations
fussily [ˈfʌsɪlɪ] ADV
1. (= demandingly) (pej) → quisquillosamente; (= scrupulously) → meticulosamente, escrupulosamente
2. (= elaborately) [designed, dressed] → de manera recargada
3. (= nervously) → nerviosamente
fussily [ˈfʌsɪli] adv
[arrange] → de façon tarabiscotée
[ornate] → de façon tarabiscotée; [accurate, bureaucratic] → de façon méticuleuse
fussily
adv (pej)
(= painstakingly) adjust, checkübertrieben sorgfältig; accuratepeinlich; legalisticübertrieben
(= ornately)überladen; fussily designed wrought-iron gatesschmiedeeiserne Tore mit verschnörkeltem Muster; fussily dressedverspielt gekleidet
fussily [ˈfʌsɪlɪ] advmeticolosamente
she was fussily dressed → era carica di fronzoli
fussily [ˈfʌsɪlɪ] advmeticolosamente
she was fussily dressed → era carica di fronzoli


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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?
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.
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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