He spoke to her fussily. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective, : a fussy eater. ,All the bric-a-brac gave the room a fussy, cluttered look. ,His writing is so fussy I lose the thread of the story. From Dictionary.com.
“There, there, there,” the old man put in fussily. From Wordnik.com. [The Witch, and other stories] Reference
"I've been looking out for you," he explained fussily. From Wordnik.com. [Partners In Crime]
Both Eilis and her mother moved fussily into the hall. From Wordnik.com. [Brooklyn] Reference
Vida fussily tugged over a large chair and launched out. From Wordnik.com. [Main Street] Reference
Captain Lebyadkin, for it was he, ran fussily to and fro. From Wordnik.com. [The Possessed] Reference
"He always says that," she complained to Qwilleran fussily. From Wordnik.com. [The Cat Who Came To Breakfast]
"Perhaps, my Lord," Balwer said, folding his hands fussily. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of Chaos]
Janet Malcolm is Gramercy Park, perfect and fussily precise. From Wordnik.com. [One-on-One With an Icon: David Halberstam Hits the Rim] Reference
Instead of that, here you fussily bring them yourself to-day!. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
A uniformed spaceman watched us, fussily regarding a chronometer. From Wordnik.com. [The Door Through Space] Reference
Raymond fingered his envelope fussily: there was nothing left in it. From Wordnik.com. [On the Stairs] Reference
Look at those bits of paper littering the place, 'he went on fussily. From Wordnik.com. [Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir] Reference
Miss M-mvi has fussily but finally succumbed to mid-afternoon slumber. From Wordnik.com. [Mental multivitamin] Reference
The Lady Rosamund bent to help her, and Aunt Min waved her fussily away. From Wordnik.com. [The Silicon Mage]
Jenkins straightened out a wrinkle in his white jacket fussily and looked up. From Wordnik.com. [Science Fiction Hall of Fame]
"I don't like hiding who I am, Majesty," he said fussily, straightening around. From Wordnik.com. [The Path of Daggers]
Antonin Tarka fussily tried to shoo both of them away, but they took no notice. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Madonna] Reference
“Oh, I must see you properly on your way,” Miss Marchmont retorted fussily. From Wordnik.com. [The Mistaken Wife] Reference
Away in the park some rooks cawed fussily over the choice of their night quarters. From Wordnik.com. [Queensland Cousins] Reference
Steps taken with a little too much precision, feet placed just a little too fussily. From Wordnik.com. [Jason Stoddard, Strange and Happy » Blog Archive » Eternal Franchise, 5.2 of 31.1] Reference
Mother extravagant, fussily conventional, but no trouble to anyone except her husband. From Wordnik.com. [The Murder Room]
She looked fussily around her, as if half expecting to find it hidden under the straw. From Wordnik.com. [The Silent Tower]
Ducos fussily aligned the edges of the papers before looking up at the English officer. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Honour]
I tugged at the door-handle and Mavra at once opened the door to us, and met us fussily. From Wordnik.com. [The Insulted and the Injured] Reference
The mature Mr. Smits 'Duke of Illyria is too fussily blah even for the narcissistic Orsino. From Wordnik.com. [Surf's Up, Dude! Shakespeare Catches Wave in Central Park] Reference
"I hope to goodness there's something to eat in the house," he added upon reflection, fussily. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
When he was settled, he folded his wings in and spent a few moments fussily settling his pinions. From Wordnik.com. [Renegade's Magic]
It was very much as he might have expected — small, cozy, tasteful without being in any way fussily feminine. From Wordnik.com. [Irresistible]
Is it forsooth nice to think that people haven't so much as a hand-stove, and that one has fussily to be sent over from home?. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
The gemologist sat down and began fussily laying out a small collection of tools and lenses, adjusting them with precision on the tabletop. From Wordnik.com. [Dance Of Death]
He is in a darkened parlour in a cramped, fussily furnished American farm home in Hydesdale, New York, some twenty miles west of Rochester. From Wordnik.com. [The Terror]
The little clock ticked fussily on the mantelpiece. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Sally] Reference
After a bit, Bellick comes in and fussily drags Linc off. From Wordnik.com. [Television Without Pity] Reference
And as he stepped fussily back across the field his old man's voice cried sternly. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
No. 2, and Captain Sabin beside her writing fussily in a large, leather-bound book. From Wordnik.com. [The Hidden Children] Reference
As the two vessels lay on the still waters, the 'Diana' fussily getting up steam, and the. From Wordnik.com. [The Life Everlasting; a reality of romance] Reference
Thus, she had always stood out in the tawdrily or drearily or fussily dressed throngs, had been. From Wordnik.com. [Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise] Reference
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