meddler

[ UK /mˈɛdlɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. an officious annoying person who interferes with others
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How To Use meddler In A Sentence

  • This radical bitch — the difficult meddler from the beginning — just called me and tried to speak for the whole gallery. 2003 May « Magic Lantern Arts
  • He seems to think of us as meddlers and bringers of danger.
  • Officious Intermeddler, You are officially permitted to intermeddle in support of my points any time, please feel free...you seem to have done all the heavy lifting here...adieu The Volokh Conspiracy » Second Circuit rules in favor of firearms dealers on procedural due process:
  • “She shall tell you herself, thou incorrigible intermeddler in what concerns thee not, that it is her wish the ceremony should go on — Is it not, Isabella, my dear?” The Black Dwarf
  • These officious intermeddlers from Hollywood have no regard for baseball or its rich history of patriotism, and they have no business being at the Hall of Fame.
  • While her family are unquestionably meddlers, their motives are more or less sympathetic.
  • His reputation as a meddler, unwilling to afford his managers free rein, is as damaging as what appears to be his unrealistic ambition.
  • John Quincy Adams, once President, but now a senile intermeddler, had been presenting petitions in Congress from various constituencies for the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia. Children of the Market Place
  • Maintenance “is officious intermeddling in a suit which in no way belongs to the intermeddler, by maintaining or assisting either party to the action, with money or otherwise, to prosecute or defend it,” in other words, helping another prosecute a suit, while champerty is a species of maintenance “in which the intermeddler makes a bargain with one of the parties to the action to be compensated out of the proceeds of the action,” in other words maintaining a suit in return for a financial interest in the outcome. Rare champerty ruling in false advertising case
  • A foreigner who attaches himself to a political party in this country is in the worst state that can be imagined; he is looked upon as a mere intermeddler. The Life of Oliver Goldsmith
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