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  • Nothing happens here in a maddeningly faffy, self-regarding, high-school-soap-opera sort of a way.

    Robert Jordan, Wheel of Time 5: The Fires of Heaven (1993) Adam Roberts 2010

  • Nothing happens here in a maddeningly faffy, self-regarding, high-school-soap-opera sort of a way.

    Archive 2010-04-01 Adam Roberts 2010

  • Jean was not in a good way Tuesday morning either so after some faffy medical stuff Alaric was dispatched to get us antivirals I'm on the 75 mg Tamiflu and Jean's on the 45gm Tamiflu along with instructions on how to make sure it gets into her.

    Snell-Pym » Swine Flu? 2009

  • Jean was not in a good way Tuesday morning either so after some faffy medical stuff Alaric was dispatched to get us antivirals I'm on the 75 mg Tamiflu and Jean's on the 45gm Tamiflu along with instructions on how to make sure it gets into her.

    Snell-Pym » 2009 » July 2009

  • Richard Curtis rom-com, with a cute, faffy Oxbridge-type thrown into the arms of a beautiful Yank.

    Evening Standard - Home 2010

  • Richard Curtis rom-com, with a cute, faffy Oxbridge-type thrown into the arms of a beautiful Yank.

    Evening Standard - Home 2010

  • It was far too faffy for a weekday meal but great for a weekend so I will so it again.

    The Guardian World News Tim Lusher 2010

  • It was far too faffy for a weekday meal but great for a weekend so I will so it again.

    The Guardian World News 2010

  • "Hurray!" in her distinctive, hooting voice (imagine someone sticking bellows up a big duck) as she turned out yet another difficult and faffy French dish with telegenic ease and informality.

    Blogposts | guardian.co.uk 2009

  • Unlikely, not unless you’re setting the traps somewhere a little more funky and a little less faffy than the lounge.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Open for business. The new renovated Ladies Lounge. 2009

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