kerfuffle

IPA: kɝfˈʌfʌɫ

(chiefly Commonwealth, informal) A disorderly outburst, disturbance, commotion, or tumult. [from Template:SAFESUBST: c.]

(chiefly Ireland, Britain, Canada, informal) To make a disorderly outburst or commotion.

Examples of "kerfuffle" in Sentences

This kerfuffle is one of the more ridiculous ones in the current “civil rights” climate.
Blue: “This kerfuffle is one of the more ridiculous ones in the current “civil rights” climate.”
My mate Steve the plumber dared me to get the word "kerfuffle" into my analysis, which I thought was very funny.
Lost in the discussion over the New York Times/SWIFT kerfuffle is the history of the Times and national security.
Second, truepenny, triggered by but tangential to the current death-of-short-fiction kerfuffle, is talking about what short stories are good for.
The kerfuffle is leaving me cold, I'll admit: I'm a small-r republican, and would like us to shed the last of our feudal, imperial shackles, lightly-worn though they be.
So I think the Stone Age kerfuffle is worth pushing on, especially since some of the "crucial information" that you identified rubs up against Nagin's need to be more transparent.
Way up there Steve Sailer said that this kerfuffle is made for a lot of whites to engage in moral preening about wonderfully sophisticately sensitive they are compared to other whites, who are so deplorable.
Update: Btw, the politically important feature of this kerfuffle is McCain's confusion -- not knowing how many houses he owns -- rather than the fact that he is rich (by virtue of his wife's inherited wealth).