Worry unnecessarily or excessively.
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Examples for "fuss "
Examples for "fuss "
1 The league has come and gone without fuss ; wait for the championship.
2 The newscaster had made a fuss over that issue also, of course.
3 Grandmother wanted most of all to save the family money & fuss .
4 There are often days when I want something tasty with minimal fuss .
5 Why all the fuss , if Ireland is fully funded until next year?
1 We fret over which areas will get flooded as sea levels rise.
2 Unfortunately, for now, there is far more to fret about than celebrate.
3 The lily may grow; the man must fret and toil and spin.
4 We fret about mass extinction, but not enough to change our habits.
5 Don't fret , because no qualifications are necessary to trade as an accountant.
1 It's possible that one outstanding niggle may resurface; if so, avoid overreacting.
2 He felt a niggle of worry every time he thought of her.
3 I remembered another niggle - odeon line from an earlier Spithill interview I did.
4 Leinster senior coach Stuart Lancaster said: Johnny has a lower-leg niggle .
5 However, one small niggle has been thrown up by the event.
6 Okay, it did niggle , but it was something I could forget easily enough.
7 Which I guess is more of a wish than a niggle .
8 But there was still that niggle , that suspicion, that wouldn't entirely go away.
9 Then the last thing he said begins to niggle at her wakening brain.
10 Trial was OK. Could win on best form but there's a doubt niggle there.
11 In a pulsating, physical game with plenty of niggle , North then held their nerve.
12 And we still don't know the extent of Flintoff's niggle .
13 There was niggle as tensions rose in the second half.
14 This was after returning from international duty with a niggle .
15 It was tetchy stuff and there was obvious niggle all the way through it.
16 He was also everywhere defensively and provided his trademark niggle , picking up four fouls.
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