fussiness
- n an irritable petulant feeling
- n unnecessary elaborateness in details
- Whether he's creating bird feeders or webcams, Beck's philosophy is to streamline the fussiness out of our gadget-happy culture.
- What O'Neill would call rigor, Bush officials say, was an excessive fussiness that led to policy gridlock and sniping within the economic team.
- If he's doing a duet, he wants his partner singing with him live on a single take--an almost unheard-of level of fussiness in an era when voices are spliced and diced and singers .