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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
- Under Pragmatic(al) she read; meddlesome, positive, dictatorial (she snorted, irritably). BEHINDLINGS
- 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.