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UK
/mˈɛdəl/
]
[ US /ˈmɛdəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈmɛdəɫ/ ]
VERB
-
intrude in other people's affairs or business; interfere unwantedly
Don't meddle in my affairs!
How To Use meddle In A Sentence
- Etherington judge of him, and what an ass was I to intermeddle! — Saint Ronan's Well
- Under Pragmatic(al) she read; meddlesome, positive, dictatorial (she snorted, irritably). BEHINDLINGS
- Politicians or other misguided do-gooders won't be able to meddle.
- How to make doing nothing - indeed REFUSING to "meddle" - look as though it is a real act of leadership. OPEN THREAD
- But to Barry, he could seem like just another meddlesome boss.
- The complainant was an officious intermeddler, a busybody, the town scold, an anti-Christian activist named Darren Lund who had an axe to grind, and Andreachuk gave it to him. Ezra Levant: June 2008 Archives
- For too long we have had too many people who are unaccountable with a licence to meddle in people 's lives. The Sun
- 'meddlesome' and threatens a 'crushing' response should Obama continue to meddle in Iranian affairs. Blue Star Chronicles
- It is a decent enough trade; plenty of people with fine titles meddle with it. Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II.
- The sensitive plant is too vulgar an allusion; but if the truth of modern naturalists may be depended upon, there is a plant which, instead of receding timidly from the intrusive touch, angrily protrudes its venomous juices upon all who presume to meddle with it: – do not you think this plant would be your fittest emblem? Letters for Literary Ladies: To Which is Added, An Essay on the Noble Science of Self-Justification