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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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Mr. Curtain had transformed all those meddlesome people into his own private workforce, and they didn't even realize it. (source)meddlesome = inclined to intrude in other people's affairs
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And to get there, those meddlesome demigods will have to travel by sea, eh? (source)
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The help tended to be officious, the rules, if heeded, restrictive, and the management meddlesome. (source)meddlesome = intrusive
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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)unmeddlesome = not intrusivestandard 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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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)meddlesome = intrusive
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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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It may be replied that some meddlesome human writers, notably Boethius, have let this secret out. (source)
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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)meddlesome = intrusive
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Don't you be a meddlesome wench an' poke your nose where it's no cause to go. (source)
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OSHA had long been despised by the nation's manufacturers, who considered the agency a source of meddlesome regulations and unnecessary red tape.† (source)
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We've all heard of this meddlesome Englishman, this accursed Scarlet Pimpernel.† (source)
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There was no one here, no meddlesome fellow tooting danger on his little horn, unless it might have been Herr Settembrini, who had called out through his cupped hands to Hans Castorp as he vanished.† (source)
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