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Definition
inclined to intrude in other people's affairs or business
- It seemed to her that her aunt was meddlesome; and from this came a vague apprehension that she would spoil something.Chapter 17 (5% in)
- A consummate sense of her aunt's meddlesome folly had come over her during the last five minutes, and she was sickened at the thought that Mrs. Penniman had been let loose, as it were, upon her happiness.Chapter 30 (78% in)
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