adv. [f. FUSSY a. + -LY2.] In a fussy manner.

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1817.  Byron, Beppo, lxxiii. Who … getting but a nibble at a time, Still fussily keeps fishing on.

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1864.  J. Forster, Life Sir J. Eliot, I. 114. He had to make answer by fussily quoting his own book against Bellamiine.

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1883.  F. M. Peard, Contrad., I. ii. 32. They were altogether dependent upon him, and he had acted, a little fussily perhaps, but nobly.

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