(n.) A tumult; a bustle; unnecessary or annoying ado about trifles.
(n.) One who is unduly anxious about trifles.
(v. i.) To be overbusy or unduly anxious about trifles; to make a bustle or ado.
Example Sentences:
(1) But insiders say the industry has been watering down the proposals, and no amount of fussing over the detail is going to get round the central point.
(2) But minutes after the final whistle, 76% of respondents to a Corriere della Sport online poll were blaming Lippi and in the post-match press conference the man himself was quick to take the blame, appearing to be anxiously awaiting the moment he can disappear quietly from the scene to be replaced by the Fiorentina manager, Cesare Prandelli, a switch decided with little fuss and no media debate just before the World Cup.
(3) The decade of the Delors presidency from 1985 saw further steps towards integration taken with relatively little fuss.
(4) Mel The squirrel in series two, with the balls [incidental footage of a squirrel caused a fuss on social media in 2011].
(5) But the Depp dog furore is a perfect example of the different approach Joyce will take to leading the Nationals – the rural-based minor party in the governing Coalition that has in recent years had a series of gentlemanly leaders who, wherever possible, have settled differences with their Coalition parties quietly, created public fusses only rarely, and international incidents never.
(6) It is now on sale in the store after publisher Europa Editions kicked up a fuss.
(7) If a contractor was involved in an incident which caused a fuss, they were whisked out of the country by their company.
(8) I don't see what all the fuss is about Germany v England.
(9) Such was its challenge that, when it was found in the library of a school run by the Inner London Education Authority in 1986, the fuss exploded and the book was subsequently cited as one of the spurs to the controversial Section 28 of the Local Government Act of 1988.
(10) He has long been called a "rock star president" and there was lots of fuss in Thailand preceding US president Barack Obama's first visit to Bangkok on Sunday.
(11) Outside, there’s no sign of life except one bearded oaf on a chopper and a kid at the back door, holding a picture of Hot Fuss-era Brandon Flowers , praying for a brief encounter.
(12) Stepping back from the fuss, it is worth thinking about whether the project's aims make sense.
(13) Her parents, a midwife and a retired fireman, said they were proud of their supremely focussed, "no fuss" daughter.
(14) He attracts controversy in February while denying Jermain Defoe elbowed Nicolás Otamendi, saying foreign players “make a big fuss of it.
(15) The fuss over who should pay for this scheme has, rather sadly in my view, overshadowed its goals.
(16) Perhaps air pollution hasn’t been solved because no one makes a fuss: scarier than the smog in Delhi , Kolkata and London is the stoicism of residents for whom bad air has become part of daily life.
(17) To this end it is they, not politicians, who need to be making a fuss about full-face veils and the need to phase them out.
(18) Some case notes make harrowing reading: cells occupied by disabled prisoners with no wall bars and inmates having to drag themselves across the floor and falling frequently; PAS "having to make a fuss" to get inmates supplied with basic needs, such as walking sticks, which are then taken away when a prisoner moves prison; and an incontinent prisoner with mental health problems sleeping naked on a urine-soaked mattress.
(19) Why quite such a fuss when nothing much actually happened?
(20) The infant's state was recorded on a check-list every 10 sec using the following categories for sleep and wakefulness: Quiet Sleep A, Quiet Sleep B, Active Sleep Without REM, Active Sleep With REM, Active Sleep With Dense REM, Drowsy, Alert Inactivity, WAKING Activity, Fussing, Crying, and Indefinite State.
Hullabaloo
Definition:
(n.) A confused noise; uproar; tumult.
Example Sentences:
(1) Along the way, they will enjoy a vegetarian barbecue or two in the evenings, as well as something called a Hullabaloo Quire (songs of protest and celebration from around the world).
(2) Immediately a hullabaloo followed, with critics accused of being ungrateful by those in favour of what the government offered.
(3) What we have actually seen during this parliament is a government successfully making itself irrelevant while creating a huge, empty hullabaloo over how it's doing the opposite.
(4) She felt hollow and lifeless and compared herself to the calm centre of a tornado, "moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo", she writes.
(5) But amid all the hullabaloo, it is worth remembering that for millions of employees, nothing is changing.
(6) But none of these events, not even Andy Murray reaching the final of the Australian Open, has generated half as much hullabaloo as the appearance on a stage in San Francisco of an ill-shaven old boy in jeans and sneakers to present his latest commercial product to the world.
(7) We have had a hullabaloo over a new 10% tax threshold and abolishing a new 50p one .
(8) Another library that opened to great hullabaloo is the Idea Store in Whitechapel, designed by David Adjaye and operated by Tower Hamlets.
(9) That hullabaloo in Belo Horizonte last night knocked the earth clean off its axis, but the space-time continuum appears to have remained in one piece, just about, and so kick off is at: 5pm at the Arena de São Paulo , 5pm in Buenos Aires, 10pm in Amsterdam, 9pm in London.
(10) Leading to this Friday’s hullabaloo was a YouTube round-the-world event – which ends on Thursday night – where the new toys were unboxed live in 15 different cities over an 18-hour span.
(11) Hanging signs of Lombard Street, the City Lombard Street, amid the hullabaloo of the City, is one of the few places in London where 17th- and 18th-century-style shop signs survive in all their gilt glory, jutting from buildings on wrought-iron brackets, creaking and groaning in the wind.
(12) With this hullabaloo, you have to wonder if Chuck hasn't felt rather let down by his bandmates over the years.
(13) AS far as I can gather, despite the annual hullabaloo over the team's clobber, only team in more than a century of Cup finals has worn an even slightly interesting suit (Liverpool's white ensemble, of course).
(14) Not that the Mayans are to blame for the hullabaloo over 21 December 2012.
(15) I listened in vain for Blackie's name to be called, and then to all the hullabaloo over a certain Jack Russell terrier named Uggie . "
(16) Outside the fashion shows is the hullabaloo frenzy – photographers go crazy and everyone's trying to get pictures for their blog or website.