fussbudgetry

alternative fuss-budgetry

1. CanadaUSuncountableThe characteristics and behaviors of a fussbudget; petty complaining.

   Alas, fussbudgetry has no place in prayer, just as emotional manipulation has no place in a loving relationship.

   1997, David Yount, Breaking Through God's Silence, →ISBN

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   All these interested Porter, but not most New Yorker readers; and his self-indulgent operation has produced most of the time not the valuable critical writing his gifts promised but a flood of historical and musical fussbudgetry that was a waste of his attention and time and theirs.

   1984, Bernard H. Haggin, Music and ballet, 1973-1983, page 202

   Romeo and Juliet refuses the audience a pause at Romeo's death; rather it switches perspective, with a welcome shock, to fussbudgetry.

   1991, Kent Cartwright, Shakespearean Tragedy and Its Double