Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Inclined to meddle or interfere.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Given to meddling; apt to interpose in the affairs of others; inclined to be officiously intrusive.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Given to meddling; apt to interpose in the affairs of others; officiously intrusive.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Inclined or having a tendency tomeddle orinterfere in other people's business.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner
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Examples
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It's so easy to not be "meddlesome" after a decision has been made by the deciders.
Sheila Weller: Beverly High, Oil Wells, Power Plants, Cancer: Disproven? Not So Fast 2008
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It had not dawned on anyone at Amazon that they might need to plan for the numbers of warm bodies being brought on board—due to the continual state of emergency, no one had time for that kind of meddlesome accounting.
21 DOG YEARS Mike Daisey 2002
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Seward was "meddlesome" toward other departments; "runs to the President two or three times a day; wants to be Premier," etc., says Welles.
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No other nation in the world is considering the kind of meddlesome regulation proposed by the European Parliament.
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It represented a "bureaucratic nightmare," according to J.mes J. Kilpatrick who was one of many syndicated columnists-among them, Patrick Buchanan, William F. Buckley and George Will-to criticize the CPA in his columns, because the CPA was authorized with inappropriate and excessive powers, which would turn it into a "meddlesome" and "out of control" body, a
History News Network 2009
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Thats why I referred to it as "meddlesome" in the previous post.
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'meddlesome' and threatens a 'crushing' response should Obama continue to meddle in Iranian affairs.
Blue Star Chronicles 2009
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In the claim that “the security of the American people is inextricably linked to the security of all people,” they hear echoes of the universalist logic that led to the disaster in Vietnam and see a sweeping foreign policy that the rest of the world finds at best meddlesome and at worst menacingly imperialist.
Globaloney 2009
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Should Alaskans decide that meddlesome outsiders are scheming to do in their beloved “Uncle Ted,” spite alone will carry him to victory.
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The hope is that by changing the composition of the board of a combined entity, SGX and ASX can get meddlesome Australian politicians off their case.
Australia's Not-So-Foreign Exchange Joseph Sternberg 2011
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