What's the difference between bustle and fussiness?

Bustle


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To move noisily; to be rudely active; to move in a way to cause agitation or disturbance; as, to bustle through a crowd.
  • (n.) Great stir; agitation; tumult from stirring or excitement.
  • (n.) A kind of pad or cushion worn on the back below the waist, by women, to give fullness to the skirts; -- called also bishop, and tournure.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A block further sits the Museum of Chocolate, joining the avant-garde of luxury chocolatiers that seem the hallmark of every bustling metropolis these days.
  • (2) The flat is opposite Covent Garden tube station in the heart of London, and a stone's throw from the hustle and bustle of Leicester Square.
  • (3) Commuters streaming into the bustling streets of the capital Kuala Lumpur earlier in the morning were overwhelmingly black-clad, while state television aired recitations from the Qur’an and showed photos of the victims.
  • (4) Karachi is a bustling business hub of more than 16 million people.
  • (5) Like most provincial towns around Russia , Kirov is far from the hustle and bustle of Moscow's political life.
  • (6) And, among several Hamlets on film, my favourite remains Gregory Kozintsev's 1971 version , which reminded us that Hamlet is only one figure in a bustling, hyperactive court.
  • (7) Poundsavers, on the other hand, looks large and bustling.
  • (8) The city's huge and priceless cultural heritage, a legacy of its medieval status as an African equivalent to Oxford or Cambridge, complete with bustling university, was little known in the outside world, with even the French, Mali's colonial rulers until 1960, carrying away some manuscripts to museums but doing little to unearth the full story behind them.
  • (9) Photograph: Alamy A great place to while away an afternoon, enjoying the tranquillity of the gardens, which make a stark contrast to the usual hustle and bustle of Delhi.
  • (10) Lee was a founding member of the governing People’s Action party and is credited with transforming Singapore from a sleepy Asian entrepot into a bustling and wealthy financial hub.
  • (11) There is colour and bustle in Chinatown, with its handsome temples and excellent food, but otherwise Singapore feels like it’s been scrubbed to within an inch of its life.
  • (12) The forward bustled in, stealing the ball and holding off the centre-half as he attempted to wrest it back, before ripping a glorious shot from a horribly tight angle into the far top corner as Ben Foster edged out to smother.
  • (13) With its bleating goats and vegetable patches, the centre is an oasis of rural tranquillity compared with the hustle and bustle of Goma down the road.
  • (14) Meanwhile, the bones that have just been confirmed as those of Richard III – the last Plantagenet king, the last English monarch to die on a battlefield, whose death ushered in the upstart Tudors – lay quietly in a calm room on the second floor of the Leicester University library, unknown to many of the students bustling in and out of the building.
  • (15) Even so, a free society requires an independent press: turbulent …enquiring…bustling…and free.
  • (16) Throw in the culture and hustle-bustle of London with a bit of the modern architecture of Jersey City, and the city would be even better.
  • (17) On a recent afternoon dozens of children could be seen racing past a multicoloured government creche towards a bustling main square.
  • (18) Their first shelter was a dingy basement in a slum far from São Paulo's bustling financial centre.
  • (19) But as a result of that, Ukip can afford its own office, which gives the area a political bustle that might at any moment turn into a blazing row.
  • (20) Money talks, especially in the bustle of an Indian bazaar.

Fussiness


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality of being fussy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Infants in the third quartile were fussy at the commencement of the period and became gradually more placid from the fifth week of life.
  • (2) The results indicate that intra-uterine sounds calm 90 per cent of babies who are fussy or crying but have no evident effect on babies who are awake but merely alert or who are slightly drowsy.
  • (3) You can't grow bananas in Alaska or broccoli at the equator unless you're willing to expend a lot of money to create a very controlled environment, and even then, it's going to be fussy and painstaking.
  • (4) He is yet to find somewhere despite being described as not a particularly "fussy buyer".
  • (5) Individual differences in positive, negative, sociability, and soothability were related to the questionnaire scores of fussy-difficult and unadaptability.
  • (6) The distribution of spectral energy among four types of infant vocalizations was compared via computerized spectral analyses of "pain-induced," "fussy," and "hungry" cries and "cooing" of 30 2-6-month-old infants.
  • (7) I just don't like Michelin-starred restaurants that are too fussy.
  • (8) You couldn’t do that today without calling it grooming, which I suspect the author would see as a piece of fussy editorialising with no place in fiction.
  • (9) "The display of works of art, for example, is to be fussy about what colour pictures are hung on - at what height they're hung.
  • (10) Overall 27% of children had febrile (greater than 38 degrees C) reactions, 62% became fussy and 79% had a local reaction.
  • (11) "Dyson Cinetic cyclones are so efficient at separating microscopic particles that everything gets thrust into the bin, and you can forget about fussy filters.” Ten years' of vacuuming According to Dyson’s testing, its new line of Cinetic cleaners can perform ten years’ worth of vacuum cleaning without needing to replace or wash their filters, which equates to sucking up two tonnes of dust.
  • (12) I inform them that I will be turning up with a set of index cards on which I have jotted down key points, but will not be boring my audience to tears with fiddly slides consisting of flying text, fussy fonts or photo montages.
  • (13) Parents were advised to seek prompt attention if symptoms of earache, fussiness, or fever recurred at any time during the 30-day study period.
  • (14) Analyses showed that female infants who were unable to complete the habituation task were reported as being more fussy and unadaptable.
  • (15) One famous product was Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup , a morphine and alcohol concoction that was marketed to parents of fussy children as a “perfectly harmless and pleasant” way to produce a “natural quiet sleep, by relieving the child from pain”.
  • (16) The remark catches his combination of asceticism and elegance: an American journalist once described him as "a haute-couture Gandalf", a wizard who is a little too fussy about his wardrobe.
  • (17) Visual inspection indicated that "pain-induced" cries could be differentiated from "fussy" and "hungry" cries and that "cooing" could be differentiated from all cries on the bases of (1) the relative amplitude levels of the high-frequency components; (2) the average fundamental frequency; and (3) the overall spectral energy levels.
  • (18) NOFT infants were found to be more fussy, demanding, and unsociable.
  • (19) It is concluded that prophylactic acetaminophen as given in this study had a moderating effect on fever, pain, and fussiness after diphtheria and tetanus toxoids and pertussis immunization.
  • (20) In the latter, he played Martin Bryce, a fussy busybody unusually preoccupied with law and order.

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