as in complainer
a person who makes frequent complaints usually about little things as a professional gardener with a well-heeled clientele, he's used to dealing with fusspots

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Recent Examples on the Web 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 One might be forgiven for also thinking that the identification is not so much between the audience and the killer as between Fincher, who is known as something of a filmmaking fusspot, and his anal-retentive central character. Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2023 So many people roll their eyes as soon as an old fusspot like me starts banging on about backing up. Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 2 Sep. 2021 The strongest performances — Dan Hiatt’s fusspot Polonius, Lozano’s regally detached Gertrude — combine color with clarity. Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 3 Oct. 2017

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“Fusspot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fusspot. Accessed 14 Oct. 2024.

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