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(Canada, US) The characteristics and behaviors of a fussbudget; petty complaining..
All these interested Porter, but not most New Yorker readers; and his self-indulgent operation has produced most of the time not the valuable critical writing his gifts promised but a flood of historical and musical fussbudgetry that was a waste of his attention and time and theirs.
Romeo and Juliet refuses the audience a pause at Romeo's death; rather it switches perspective, with a welcome shock, to fussbudgetry.
Alas, fussbudgetry has no place in prayer, just as emotional manipulation has no place in a loving relationship.
Use fussbudgetry when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Fussbudgetry means (Canada, US) The characteristics and behaviors of a fussbudget; petty complaining..
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All these interested Porter, but not most New Yorker readers; and his self-indulgent operation has produced most of the time not the valuable critical writing his gifts promised but a flood of historical and musical fussbudgetry that was a waste of his attention and time and theirs.
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