kerfuffle's Usage Examples:

Unsurprisingly, this caused a kerfuffle in the church!He was jerked out of his reverie by a sudden kerfuffle on the far side of the nearest trees.

kerfuffle over the so-called Origami project, a rumored portable media and computing device supposedly about to be revealed by Microsof.

There was a minor kerfuffle as the kids tried to find their way out.

pompous little man in the White House who wants to create such a kerfuffle in Iraq?The all slept in her bedroom without too much kerfuffle as well.

Unsurprisingly, this caused a kerfuffle in the church!Unsurprisingly, the all-white jury convicted Satpal of murder within about half an hour.

I do not expect the current kerfuffle to be much shorter.

Synonyms:

splash, hurly burly, stir, earthquake, hoo-ha, garboil, storm, hoo-hah, upheaval, tumult, tumultuousness, storm centre, disruption, commotion, uproar, incident, to-do, turmoil, flutter, disorder, convulsion, storm center, tempest, disturbance,

Antonyms:

order, clean, depress, desensitise, desensitize,