Fussiness [noun]

But he is a very sincere man; has neither show nor fussiness in him; and practices his duties with a strict, quiet regularity.

The Australians, afflicted by our modern nervous fussiness, could not leave Chidley alone.

He had never realized before the fussiness and bad taste of the architecture of this building, which was the heart of Monaco.

They had to assume an indolent attitude in pure opposition to his fussiness.

I thought there was the least touch of affectation of fussiness, but it may not be so.

He is constitutionally incapable of the obsequious fussiness that belongs to commercial hospitality.

Still I could not say a word, his fussiness and self-importance overcoming his inquisitiveness.

Ramage has that gift, and his zest never degenerates into the fussiness of many modern travellers.

"But that is no reason why it should be all," I said to myself, and paid no attention to her little bashful fussiness.

None the less, the distinctive badge of all his tribe was and remained what the Greeks called fussiness (t psophodes).