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[ UK /mˈɛdə‍l/ ]
[ US /ˈmɛdəɫ/ ]
VERB
  1. 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
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