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Another word for fuss

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Noun

  1. Busy and useless activity

    See also:

    calm

    action

  2. Needless trouble

    See also:

    easy

Verb

  1. To worry over trifles

    See also:

    calm

  2. To be nervously or uselessly active

    See also:

    calm

    action

Idioms:

    fuss at

  1. To scold or find fault with constantly

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Another word for fuss

Noun
  1. See also:

    uproar

    excitement

    confusion

Verb
  1. See also:

    complain

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Sentence Examples

  • They are too young to fly, and the mother bird is making a great fuss about it.

  • She must at least think she has or surely she wouldn't have shown up after all this time and started a fuss about something that we all settled long time ago.

  • Rostov lay down again on his bed and thought complacently: "Let him fuss and bustle now, my job's done and I'm lying down--capitally!"

  • If so, it was strange that so much fuss would be made over the reading of a foreman's will.

  • "Women's fuss, women's fuss!" said Alpatych.

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