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US
/ˈmɛdəɫsəm/
]
[ UK /mˈɛdəlsˌʌm/ ]
[ UK /mˈɛdəlsˌʌm/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner
busy about other people's business
an interfering old woman
bustling about self-importantly making an officious nuisance of himself
How To Use meddlesome In A Sentence
- For once, those meddlesome noses are actively welcome.
- The broadcast will be live and unfiltered - unfiltered, at least, by meddlesome journalists.
- The Grand Duke, Peter Leopold, the practical, economical, priest-hating, paternally-meddlesome, bustlingly and tyrannically-reforming son of Maria Theresa, was not the man to console so mediæval and antiquated and unphilosophical a thing as a Stuart. The Countess of Albany
- It's so easy to not be "meddlesome" after a decision has been made by the deciders. Sheila Weller: Beverly High, Oil Wells, Power Plants, Cancer: Disproven? Not So Fast
- It had not dawned on anyone at Amazon that they might need to plan for the numbers of warm bodies being brought on board—due to the continual state of emergency, no one had time for that kind of meddlesome accounting. 21 DOG YEARS
- With troops in 70 percent of the world's countries we are naturally perceived as the most meddlesome of nations.
- Much of this is due to the government's meddlesome social engineering.
- Seward was "meddlesome" toward other departments; "runs to the President two or three times a day; wants to be Premier," etc., says Welles. The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Pen-Pictures And Personal Recollections By Those Who Knew Him
- Social workers are seen as meddlesome and health service managers as hard-hearted.
- She is unhappy, bossy, meddlesome, and possessive.
