FUSSILY Synonyms: 39 Similar and Opposite Words

fussily

adverb

Definition of fussily

as in fastidiously

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The director is a longtime action coordinator mentored by Donnie Yen; likewise, Sonomura has started to helm his own fastidiously staged chaos.

— Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2026
France is a country that fastidiously applies rigorous nomenclature to everything from cheese to wine.

— Matt Ortile, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 June 2026

Definition of fastidiously

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But this year is different, and the roles are reversed; David and his uncle do the swapping while Peralta stands by to place each sticker carefully into the album.

— Maria Jose Gutierrez-Chavez, Curbed, 17 July 2026
Readers of the report may not be carefully attuned to the legal arguments used to justify anti-BDS legislation, but PEN America obviously is and so are the donors who support this work.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 July 2026

Definition of carefully

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Moreover, quality must be deeply sensory and meticulously crafted, fostering emotional memories through human connection and attention to detail.

— Kate Hardcastle, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026
All of the most iconic images from the first movie — a young Moana interacting with an ocean that parts to greet her as a friend, the heroine, older and wiser, gazing out onto the horizon wistfully from her docked raft — are meticulously redone.

— Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 8 July 2026

Definition of meticulously

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Mahmoud Saber and Ramy Rabia scored the first two, before Salah elegantly chipped the ball into the middle of the goal and Hossam Abdelmaguid scored the winning penalty kick.

— Ahmed Walid, New York Times, 4 July 2026
Back home in Wilmington, Cynthia Brown built community the way her forebears had built houses—tirelessly and elegantly in the course of years.

— Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 3 July 2026

Definition of elegantly

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Paltrow wore a black, strapless gown and buckled slippers, while Martin sported a two-tone brown-and-blue sweater over a white T-shirt, with brown corduroy pants and a stylishly thin belt.

— Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 2 July 2026
Even the entry-level units feature a separate bedroom, stylishly partitioned with wooden slat walls that can open and close.

— Chadner Navarro, Travel + Leisure, 29 June 2026

Definition of stylishly

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The next model of the fashionably thin phone design should come with an improved camera.

— Ewan Spence, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
Seattle fortress There was no fashionably late-arriving crowd at the stadium on Friday for a noon start despite the revelry downtown on Thursday night.

— David Close, CNN Money, 20 June 2026

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