Sentence examples for be meddlesome from inspiring English sources

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be meddlesome

adjective

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!

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But émigré communities can be meddlesome, so politicians often try to limit their influence in domestic affairs.

The European Union can be meddlesome, arrogant and incompetent, but seldom if ever was the ordinary British reader told how it had secured peace on the Continent, embraced the former Communist countries of Central Europe, broken up cartels or forced member states to clean up their rivers and beaches.

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Karen (Bev Sheehan) is meddlesome and controlling, yet controlled by a maddening sense of orderliness.

The executives who run the organizations Mr. Weill cares most about say he manages to be fully engaged without being meddlesome.

"Remind yourself that when mom's being meddlesome or dad's being controlling that this is the way they've always been".

One Indians official accused Alomar of being meddlesome in the clubhouse and said, "There's a reason why he's been with five teams".

While the volunteers provide a great service and the Olympic movement would wither without them, they have also been meddlesome, bogging down the U.S.O.C., lending a sense of paralysis.

At Rangers, they think Ashley is meddlesome.

Owner Vivek Ranadive is meddlesome.

Ellet was known for being meddlesome and vindictive and, while visiting the Poe household in late January 1846, she saw one of Osgood's personal letters to Poe.

"Individuals and interest groups seeking to play to the gallery by being meddlesome, sensational or mischievous in interpreting developments in the military are advised to moderate their activities with some decorum," the statement said.

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