1 (demandingly) (pejorative) quisquillosamente; (scrupulously) meticulosamente; escrupulosamente To Grenville's fussily legalistic mind the slapdash way in which the Trade and Navigation Acts had been administered in the past was abhorrent he had been described as a fussily accurate test pilot Not only do the British play fussily by the rules, we also tend to make the game even harder to play
2 (elaborately) [+designed, dressed] de manera recargada the fussily ornate Jubilee Room at the House of Commons pebble-dashed houses with their fussily gabled upper-storey windows large, fussily designed wrought-iron gates she dresses rather fussily for my taste - all this lace and frills are too much
3 (nervously) nerviosamente she adjusted her coloured headscarf fussily He did his duty well, if fussily, and ushered me into a chair by the empty grate
