Sample Sentences formeddlesome (editor-reviewed)
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She works hard not to be the stereotypical meddlesome mother-in-law.meddlesome = intruding
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I fear a meddlesome government agency arbitrarily enforcing vague rules.
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She's a nosey meddlesome neighbor who is always looking out her window at me.
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The name Malfoy still commands a certain respect, yet the Ministry grows ever more meddlesome. (source)meddlesome = inclined to intrude in other people's affairs or business
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And to get there, those meddlesome demigods will have to travel by sea, eh? (source)meddlesome = inclined to intrude in other people's affairs
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Mr. Curtain had transformed all those meddlesome people into his own private workforce, and they didn't even realize it. (source)
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...she phoned Dr. Wiss's office without consulting Abby. Meddlesome! (source)Meddlesome = inclined to intrude in other people's affairs
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Bronzini looked on, sitting in when someone left but otherwise a kibitzer, unmeddlesome, content to savor the company and try the wine, sometimes good, sometimes overfermented, better used to spike a salad.† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unmeddlesome means not and reverses the meaning of meddlesome. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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Don't you be a meddlesome wench an' poke your nose where it's no cause to go. (source)meddlesome = intrusive
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"It's a good thing Rachel Lynde got a calling down; she's a meddlesome old gossip," was Matthew's consolatory rejoinder. (source)
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The help tended to be officious, the rules, if heeded, restrictive, and the management meddlesome. (source)
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Patients might see no connection between the abusive husband, or meddlesome mother-in-law, or the recent death of their infant, and their dizziness or palpitations. (source)
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It may be replied that some meddlesome human writers, notably Boethius, have let this secret out. (source)meddlesome = inclined to intrude in other people's affairs
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We've all heard of this meddlesome Englishman, this accursed Scarlet Pimpernel.† (source)
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So she took and dusted us both with the hickry, and we was as much as two hours catching another fifteen or sixteen, drat that meddlesome cub, and they warn't the likeliest, nuther, because the first haul was the pick of the flock.† (source)
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He was, besides, a meddlesome, inquisitive man, who poked his nose into everything.† (source)
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