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
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  • 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.
  • With a less than brilliant director, ham actors and a meddlesome newcomer, will it ever reach opening night?
  • When meddlesome busybodies suggested that perhaps these hours were rather long, they were told that work kept adults from drink and children from mischief.
  • He understood all the suspicions that policemen entertain in the case of night prowlers, and knew that they would be particularly and meddlesomely interested in one who prowled with a child in his arms. The Landloper
  • By this means the meddlesome woman cast in a bone between the wife and the husband.
  • It's perfectly capable of remaining in its own time-warped bubble without help from its meddlesome friends.
  • But that's how the government, which seems to get bigger and more meddlesome by the week, set it up.
  • Gongorism of many passages in Calderon's best pieces, their obscurity and extravagant bombast, should be charged to the account of a meddlesome collector and editor, that is, to Vera Tasis, and not to The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
  • However, it wasnt until this year when an interrogation primogenitor asked me how we became meddlesome in training which we took a time to ponder this Archive 2009-11-01
  • In doing so, they waste money, intimidate doctors, clog up the system and draw in the meddlesome fools in Westminster.
  • The hope is that by changing the composition of the board of a combined entity, SGX and ASX can get meddlesome Australian politicians off their case. Australia's Not-So-Foreign Exchange
  • Should Alaskans decide that meddlesome outsiders are scheming to do in their beloved “Uncle Ted,” spite alone will carry him to victory. The Man in the Middle
  • So, anyway, to avoid suspicion, I had to invite that meddlesome girl, too.
  • Officious, adj: intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner; "an interfering old woman"; "bustling about self-importantly making an officious nuisance of himself"; "busy about other people's business" [syn: interfering, meddlesome, meddling, busy, busybodied] posted by redbarren at 4: 40 PM Archive 2005-12-01
  • By this means the meddlesome woman cast in a bone between the wife and the husband.
  • By this means the meddlesome woman cast in a bone between the wife and the husband.
  • Under Pragmatic(al) she read; meddlesome, positive, dictatorial (she snorted, irritably). BEHINDLINGS
  • By this means the meddlesome woman cast in a bone between the wife and the husband.
  • He also gives the subsidiary characters - a dim married couple and a meddlesome mother-in-law - meaty roles whose farce is grounded in wry truth.
  • Thats why I referred to it as "meddlesome" in the previous post. Yahoo! Buzz US: Top Stories
  • It represented a "bureaucratic nightmare," according to J.mes J. Kilpatrick who was one of many syndicated columnists-among them, Patrick Buchanan, William F. Buckley and George Will-to criticize the CPA in his columns, because the CPA was authorized with inappropriate and excessive powers, which would turn it into a "meddlesome" and "out of control" body, a History News Network
  • The problem is not the meddlesome mom but the compliant son her overprotection spawned.
  • The first stage test which is applied on the application for leave will lead to a refusal if the applicant has no interest whatever and is in truth no more than a meddlesome busybody.
  • But to Barry, he could seem like just another meddlesome boss.
  • 'meddlesome' and threatens a 'crushing' response should Obama continue to meddle in Iranian affairs. Blue Star Chronicles
  • It was just another boring city, filled with meddlesome people and merchants who like to drag you to their stands against your wishes, insisting that you buy something outrageously overpriced.
  • And just in case those meddlesome friends of Hugh's manage to get wind of what we've done, the sanitarium is the safest place she could be! The Gates Of Sleep
  • Wolfgang Wagner, who disinherited his brother's children and his own son to leave Bayreuth in the hands of two rival daughters, Eva and Katharina, was the last grandchild to be dandled on Cosima's meddlesome knee. Keeper Of the Shrine
  • With a less than brilliant director, ham actors and a meddlesome newcomer, will it ever reach opening night?
  • We are a village of people meddlesome in deliberating as well as pity knowledge relating to NYC Transit as good as transit around New York City as well as around a world. When Is Black Friday? - NYC Transit Forums
  • They've been after t 'winders, and after t' vittle, and after t 'very saut to 't; it's dearer by hauf an' more nor it were when a were a boy: they're a meddlesome set o 'folks, law-makers is, an' a'll niver believe King George has ought t 'do wi' 't. Sylvia's Lovers — Complete
  • Money has not been divided, it is meddlesome to nature of everybody of broad music copyright.
  • She had to do without the family she had relied on for her entire life: an overbearing, vicious mother, irritating brothers, meddlesome cousins, and so on.
  • I don't want it to be tricky or messy, and I certainly don't want that meddlesome idiot in the way.
  • No other nation in the world is considering the kind of meddlesome regulation proposed by the European Parliament. Technology news, comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk
  • Despite being out of office, he persisted in his meddlesome diplomatic gambits with his friends in Germany.
  • If foreigners find the United States to be too meddlesome, it isn't because of our unmatched military power.
  • Her antecedents were the rancorous, meddlesome Macedonian queens who routinely poisoned brothers and sent armies against sons. Elizabeth Debold: Divine Feminine Alert
  • Under Pragmatic(al) she read; meddlesome, positive, dictatorial (she snorted, irritably). BEHINDLINGS
  • These if-onlys seemed clever arguments at the time, because the administration kept thundering that diplomacy was for wimps and Congress was being meddlesome in trying to constrain the commander in chief.
  • But I am very sure of this: that a vast majority of the men who make the world go round drink or have drunk; and that when at last the world comes to be governed by those who don't and haven't, it will be even worse governed, more pettily and meddlesomely, than it is at present. We Three
  • China's music-festival industry shares certain qualities with the country's other big businesses: huge potential, eye-popping expansion, rampant imitation, meddlesome government officials. A Pioneer In Chinese Music Festivals
  • Are we meddlesome in anticipating alternative articles? Having Wonderful Vacation by Going to Las Vegas Events | Arts and ...
  • Then there are some who are merely meddlesome and intrusive in the dressing room.
  • The Government has become more intrusive, more coercive, more meddlesome, and less effective.
  • In the claim that “the security of the American people is inextricably linked to the security of all people,” they hear echoes of the universalist logic that led to the disaster in Vietnam and see a sweeping foreign policy that the rest of the world finds at best meddlesome and at worst menacingly imperialist. Globaloney
  • a duster and toddles about meddlesomely, spying out dust so diligently that whilst she is flicking off one speck she is already looking elsewhere for another. The Doctor's Dilemma
  • By this means the meddlesome woman cast in a bone between the wife and the husband.
  • Get rid of that meddlesome fool!
  • This act of uncharitable stupidity can only be one thing: a way to keep meddlesome lefties and Patagonia-wearin 'bleedin'-hearts from observing what really happens during an emergency and telling anyone about it. We got the last bottle of soco
  • She was, after all, only one meddlesome old woman.
  • He also gives the subsidiary characters - a dim married couple and a meddlesome mother-in-law - meaty roles whose farce is grounded in wry truth.
  • Vincent Canby in The New York Times wrote, “The intentions of McCabe and Mrs. Miller are not only serious, they are meddlesomely imposed on the film by tired symbolism… [that] keep[s] spoiling the fun of what might have been an uproarious frontier fable.” STAR

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