as in complainers
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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Noun
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If family needs cause drama, set kind boundaries and explain them to any complainers.—
Tarot.com,
New York Daily News,
2 Jan. 2026 -
The faculty experience has been that administrations often side with the complainers.—
Louis Menand,
New Yorker,
26 Sep. 2025
Noun
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If the department has a plan to increase services — say, by ensuring at least one hospital in a region is equipped to deliver babies — that would be a different story, but the state would have to have some way of compensating hospitals taking on unprofitable services, Stansbury said.—
Meg Wingerter,
Denver Post,
11 Jan. 2026
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Over the last year, nearly 20,000 babies were born to Venezuelan immigrants, according to the census.—
Laura Turbay,
Chicago Tribune,
11 Jan. 2026
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“Fusspots.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fusspots. Accessed 16 Jan. 2026.
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