Crossword-Solution: FUSSY 5 letters, 73 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Word Word Type Definition
Fussy superl Making a fuss; disposed to make an unnecessary ado about
trifles; overnice; fidgety.

We have 73 clues for the answer “FUSSY”

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overbusy 1 answer
Elaborately trimmed. 1 answer
Ill-tempered, as a baby 1 answer
In need of a nap, say 1 answer
Like Morris the Cat 1 answer
Like a baby who won't stop crying 1 answer
Particularly persnickety 1 answer
Tending to complain 1 answer
Tending to nitpick 1 answer
Too busy with minutiae 1 answer
Worrying over trifles. 1 answer
Was cranky 1 answer
Meticulous to a fault 2 answers
Difficult to please 2 answers
Very particular 2 answers
Hard to satisfy 2 answers
finical 2 answers
Like Felix, in "The Odd Couple" 2 answers
Too exacting 2 answers
Not easily satisfied 2 answers
Overelaborate. 2 answers
Prone to complaining 2 answers
Quite particular 2 answers
Detail-oriented 3 answers
Tough to please 3 answers
Not easy to please 3 answers
Particularly particular 3 answers
Persnickety 7 answers
choosy 10 answers
HARD to please 10 answers
A FINICKY EATER 10 answers
ARRANGE IN A PARTICULAR WAY 10 answers
A DEVICE OR CONTROL THAT IS VERY USEFUL FOR A PARTICULAR JOB 11 answers
pernickety 12 answers
Rococo 14 answers
"Judging ___" 15 answers
Squeamish. 15 answers
finicky 23 answers
Sulky 27 answers
Hopping ___ 29 answers
hustling 29 answers
inconvenient 31 answers
meticulous 31 answers
Eclectic 33 answers
heedful 35 answers
Bustling 36 answers
Selective 37 answers
Fastidious 40 answers
Humming 41 answers
Adorned 44 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with FUSSY (5)

She had a white fur tippet about her neck and made no fussy objections when Emil fingered it admiringly.
O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991
The rattle of the quarter-jack again from its niche, its blow for three-quarters, its fussy retreat, were almost painfully abrupt, and caused many of the congregation to start palpably.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
They don't like tedium, nondeterminism, or most of the fussy, boring, ill-defined little tasks that go with maintaining a normal existence.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
The houses were little story-and-a-half cottages, with none of the fussy architectural efforts that marked those on Sylvester Street.
The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992
Jellyband came bustling forward, eager, alert and fussy, as became the advent of one of the most favoured guests of his hostel.
The Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness Orczy 1993

Quotes with FUSSY (3)

Why is it that all cars are women?" he asked. "Because they're fussy and demanding," answered Zee. "Because if they were men, they'd sit around and complain instead of getting the job done," I told him.
Patricia Briggs Silver Borne
Aunt Rosa, a fussy, angular, wild-eyed old lady, who had lived in a tremulous world of bad news, bankruptcies, train accidents, cancerous growths — until the Germans put her to death, together with all the people she had worried about.
Vladimir Nabokov
Yes, I hate orthodox criticism. I don't mean great criticism, like that of Matthew Arnold and others, but the usual small niggling, fussy-mussy criticism, which thinks it can improve people by telling them where they are wrong, and results only in putting them in straitjackets of hesitancy and self-consciousness, and weazening all vision and bravery.... I hate it because of all the potentially shining, gentle, gifted people of all ages, that it snuffs out every year. It is a …
Brenda Ueland If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit
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Appears in: Chicago Tribune, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 59 times in crossword archives (1956–2025).