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Meanings of fussy in English
Annoyed and irritable.
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Examples for "cross"
Examples for "cross"
1
Thousands of migrants attempt to cross the Mediterranean to Europe every year.
2
Future studies of comprehensive prenatal case management should focus on cross-level questions.
3
Since Israel's Gaza offensive 18 months ago, cross-border violence has largely abated.
4
The rest needs to come from either cross-selling or new growth initiatives.
5
How can I cross the swarming sea and reach home at last?'
1
So much for Chinese food: Half an hour later you're grumpy again.
2
He was abrupt in manner and grumpy in speech with the seamen.
3
Sure, there's the Christmas present sorted for your dopey, grumpy younger brother.
4
And besides, he was most often a grumpy bones about the children.
5
He's a very good manager, but I feel he's been unnecessarily grumpy.
1
And the king looked, and saw nothing except the crabbed printed lines.
2
He blinked at the crabbed spidery caligraphy,andhandedthe letterback .
3
They cannot be too gnarly and crabbed and rusty to look at.
4
It is, especially such a language as this crabbed but glorious Deutsch.
5
But he was as crabbed an old wretch as you can please.
1
Could anyone else handle grouchy, socially hopeless House as well as Wilson?
2
And he is nothing like the grouchy, monosyllabic subject of multiple warnings.
3
They are never grouchy and they want to hang out with you.
4
But then, one of his workers disturbs something ancient and incredibly grouchy.
5
He is a Roman soldier and like all Romans is very grouchy.
1
Visitors considered Roman drivers ill-tempered, short of patience, and heavy of foot.
2
Bolsover, meanwhile, snarled over the matter in ill-tempered conclaves in the play-ground.
3
The final match of the ill-tempered series begins in Johannesburg on Friday.
4
Perhaps he feels the disgrace and it makes him rude and ill-tempered.
5
Behind me, I heard that porch board give out its ill-tempered squeal.
1
You're going to wake up, perfectly fine and as crabby as ever.
2
My mellow chocolate mood was fading and I was getting crabby fast.
3
God could, after all, be a consummate craftsman, but a crabby character.
4
She might be whiny, and snippy, and crabby, but she's no killer.
5
I can get very impatient and crabby on the home front.
1
Of course, they were all as bad-tempered as orcs on the march.
2
Lack of sleep had made her restless, and more than usually bad-tempered.
3
Secondly, you are bad-tempered and unjust and we are frightened of you.
4
Nobody likes a bad-tempered girl, and I have no use for one.'
5
They grow into cross, bad-tempered men whom nobody likes and nobody trusts.
Usage of fussy in English
1
Huppert's psychotically fussy performance might as well be happening in a void.
2
It's like it was prepared to appease a fussy five year old.
3
Far as the color, I'd say she's not gonna be too fussy.
4
Too many pot smokers these days have gotten fussy about their weed.
5
Joy, on the other hand, had opted for a less fussy costume.
6
And I notice people who get up very early are horribly fussy.
7
And he was as fussy as any old maid I ever saw.
8
It's down to just me, a fuzzy poodle and a fussy cat.
9
The chaplain, a fussy but well-meaning person, has been memorializing about it.
10
An island is entirely surrounded by water, continued the fussy old gentleman.
11
Was it fussy to make a simple decision and stick to it?
12
But most locals aren't fussy when it comes to supplementing their diet.
13
He wasn't going to be fussy about where he hung his hat.
14
We can't be fussy any more now there are so many barber-shops.
15
On top of it, our daughter was teething, so had been fussy.
16
Like her office downtown, it was feminine, a bit fussy, but cozy.
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