What's the difference between kerfuffle and tumult?

Kerfuffle


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Consequently, there isn't a week that goes by without Delingpole causing some sort of kerfuffle, then running away laughing like a naughty boy who has just blown off through the headmaster's letterbox.
  • (2) Barton rubs Old Firm up the wrong way Joey Barton apologises ‘unreservedly’ after being sent home by Rangers Read more The phrase “Joey Barton Twitter storm” is pretty much a tautology, so it was no surprise that his decision to sign for Rangers in May had social media in a kerfuffle when his 2012 tweet – “I am a Celtic fan” – was dredged up so that it might be subject to calm and sober scrutiny from all concerned.
  • (3) 2.29pm GMT Bank of England plan leave economists feeling QEesy In the UK, there is something of a kerfuffle after the Bank of England announced that it will transfer tens of billions pounds accrued through its quantitative easing programme back to the UK Treasury.
  • (4) Through the window she gazes out at a great kerfuffle of cameras and lights as a One Show presenter is filmed abseiling off the roof.
  • (5) "This kerfuffle is an ad feminam attack from the boys and, of course, the odd girl, but mainly it's a boyzones attack.
  • (6) The Selftrade letters have caused a kerfuffle, particularly as most of the recipients aren't oligarchs and millionaires but ordinary small investors with perhaps a few thousand pounds in an Isa.
  • (7) As if to show that this stage is not merely a 100km+ warm-up to a frenetic sprint, a minor kerfuffle in the peloton results in two riders hitting the road.
  • (8) The committee has taken a quick turn round the course in the wake of the Mid Staffs hospital kerfuffle – and covers ground that colleague MPs have already trodden, for example in the health committee .
  • (9) Read more Meanwhile, Trump’s tweets have provided a daily source of jaw-dropping amusement for a global audience, a phenomenon that reached a peak with the kerfuffle over “covfefe”, the apparently mistyped word in an incomplete tweet that the president posted after midnight on Wednesday.
  • (10) The recent kerfuffle provoked by the film of the off-duty fireman chucking the alleged fair dodger off the train in Scotland has opened an interesting debate about this issue.
  • (11) He's in there, as you might imagine, kerfuffling around with some beverages, jugs and glasses all lined up on his boardroom table like a middle-management conference at the South Mimms Novotel.
  • (12) Pannun and Whittington’s alliance may cause a public kerfuffle in New York or Washington as they try to get the lawsuit papers served on Modi.
  • (13) Also responsible for two of the broadcaster’s biggest hits of 2014, The Jump and The Island with Bear Grylls (not without a rumpus of its own), Humphreys can expect another kerfuffle with Sex in Class, in which Belgian sex therapist Goedele Liekens takes her campaign to establish a GCSE in sex education into the homes and schools of Britain.
  • (14) Marr's amusement turned to surprise when Morrissey joined in the kerfuffle, issuing a statement supporting his ex-bandmate 's tweet about Cameron.
  • (15) There was a minor kerfuffle a few weeks ago when the Daily Mail website overtook the New York Times to become the most popular news site in the world .
  • (16) Therefore, Kevin Rudd could win by a slim majority and all the leadership kerfuffle would end.
  • (17) As you may have noticed, there was a bit of a kerfuffle last week involving this newspaper, the House of Commons, the oil-trading company Trafigura , law firm Carter-Ruck, Private Eye, toxic waste, Twitter, and a mysterious alien entity known as a "super-injunction".
  • (18) 27 min: Sneijder cops a booking do, for his part in the kerfuffle that followed the high kick.
  • (19) When you look at Paris as an expression of global will, a final piece of evidence for business about where the world is heading, a turbo-charge for investment decisions that are already starting, then the whole kerfuffle about the 1.5C target also makes sense.
  • (20) This kerfuffle could have been avoided if the parties involved would have done more to control their imaginations".

Tumult


Definition:

  • (n.) The commotion or agitation of a multitude, usually accompanied with great noise, uproar, and confusion of voices; hurly-burly; noisy confusion.
  • (n.) Violent commotion or agitation, with confusion of sounds; as, the tumult of the elements.
  • (n.) Irregular or confused motion; agitation; high excitement; as, the tumult of the spirits or passions.
  • (v. i.) To make a tumult; to be in great commotion.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Arab women can claim to have been all these things and more during the three months of tumult that have shaken the region.
  • (2) Houthis and their Saudi foes have begun talks to try to end Yemen’s war , two officials said, in what appears their most serious bid to close a theatre of Saudi-Iranian rivalry deepening political tumult across the Middle East.
  • (3) Don’t dream of any revolution again.” Mubarak’s release comes amid an economic crisis following years of political tumult and worsening security.
  • (4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ballymurphy killings: IRA shootings under dispute – video What emerges above all else from the many contemporary statements and the recollections of those who were present is an impression of tumult, chaos and confusion.
  • (5) Far away from the tumult of independence, eight British and American consultants from the Ford Foundation had gathered in Berkeley, California, to review maps, draw up plans, and mock up drafts of India’s new capital city.
  • (6) Syntagma is likely to see more tumult in the months to come – next year is poised to be the roughest since Greece descended into economic freefall following revelations of the true scale of its budget deficit in late 2009.
  • (7) Patten took the last word when he appeared before MPs on Monday, telling them the current tumult would help "transform the BBC and make it a more trusted national institution – more trusted than it is today, which is reasonably high but not as high as it should be".
  • (8) Jack Stewart, junior doctor, 28, London: ‘I voted in favour of the new contract, but am now backing this strike’ I voted yes to the contract in May because, with the tumult surrounding Brexit, it felt like the best deal we were likely to get.
  • (9) They were saved by a diver who shouted above the tumult that they should swim out to sea, rather than to the shore.
  • (10) In a sign of the political tumult that lies ahead, Antonis Samaras, New Democracy's leader, said he would seek to create a "government of national salvation" that would attempt to amend the loan agreement Greece had signed with its "troika" of creditors, the EU, European Central Bank and IMF.
  • (11) If the yes side wins, the people of the third Scotland will benefit from a huge injection of self-validation, and surely carve out a role within the resulting tumult.
  • (12) The third storm – political tumult brought about by the rise of populist political movements – poses yet another serious threat.
  • (13) With a cliffhanger third and final vote now due on 29 December, Greece’s beleaguered prime minister, Antonis Samaras, warned MPs of the political tumult that would ensue if they failed then to support the government’s presidential candidate.
  • (14) After the country declared independence in 1962, a quarter of a century of political tumult and violence followed.
  • (15) Seeking to calm nerves at a time of economic tumult, the central bank said it guarantees deposits in all currencies and that individuals and companies would face no restrictions in depositing and withdrawing foreign currency.
  • (16) It is from his years of therapy, you assume, that he learned to talk so calmly about his internal tumult.
  • (17) Her body clock is set to New York time and her system is a tumult of sleeping pills and caffeine.
  • (18) Don't Cry For Me Cobham retraces the magical and tumultous story of the nation's seventh-favourite jobbing TV presenter through the medium of classic Andrew Lloyd Webber-penned showstoppers like I'm Princess Tippytoes (about Turner's spat with GMTV co-host Eamonn Holmes, played here by Danny DeVito), Yes, I'm Still Going On About Tracy Island, and the riotous Smash His Face Up, about her husband Grant Bovey's epic 2002 Celebrity Boxing bout with Ricky Gervais.
  • (19) But this Saturday, on the first anniversary of the disputed elections that gave rise to the biggest challenge to the Islamic republic's authority in its 30-year history, a repeat of such tumult is hard to imagine.
  • (20) The deals collapsed in 2008 when the housing market plunged and the scale of the risks was exposed, and the resulting financial tumult led to the biggest crisis since the Great Depression.