FUSSBUDGET Synonyms: 23 Similar and Opposite Words

fussbudget

noun

ˈfəs-ˌbə-jət

Definition of fussbudget

as in complainer

a person who makes frequent complaints usually about little things a customer who's a real fussbudget about wanting her food very hot

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happy camper

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Recent Examples of fussbudget The progressive mayor of New York wanted a mega financial institution to anchor his preferred business district, and no preservationist fussbudgets were going to get in the way. — Justin Davidson, Daily Intelligencer, 22 Feb. 2018

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Noun

My ‘Deborah Vance Show senior writer’ persona was kind of a rude complainer with an incipient alcohol problem.

— Merrill Markoe, Deadline, 21 Aug. 2026
Are they deluded into thinking that the complainers are just a squeaky wheel minority and the majority of fans are happy with it?

— Jeremy Rutherford, New York Times, 13 July 2026

Definition of complainer

Noun

Hasan was convicted of carrying out the attack, which killed 14 people at the Texas military base, including an unborn baby, before a military jury and was sentenced to death in 2013.

— Robert Blankenship, The Washington Examiner, 6 Oct. 2026
There are bespoke treatments by Bamford and renowned Irish skin care brand Voya (the Seaweed Leaf Wrap will leave your skin feeling baby-soft).

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of baby

Noun

In Deborah, the show offers a lonely boomer fusspot with the politics of Dwight Eisenhower.

— Graham Hillard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 12 July 2024
However, this trait can appear as a stickler for perfection, precision, fusspot, formalist, nitpicker, pedantic, and fastidious.

— Colleen Reilly, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024

Definition of fusspot

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