meddlesome
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English[edit]
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Adjective[edit]
meddlesome (comparative more meddlesome, superlative most meddlesome)
- Characterised or marked by meddling; inclined or having a tendency to meddle or interfere in other people's business.
- If those meddlesome kids hadn't turned me in, I'd have gotten away with my nefarious scheme!
- 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 168:
- The help tended to be officious, the rules, if heeded, restrictive, and the management meddlesome.
Synonyms[edit]
- (inclined to meddle or interfere): interfering, kibitzing, nosy, meddling
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Translations[edit]
inclined to meddle or interfere
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