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Definition of meddle:

  • (verb) intrude in other people's affairs or business; interfere unwantedly; "Don't meddle in my affairs!"

Sentence Examples:

Men let you alone, which is an immense thing: they do it even because they have no time to meddle with you.

I have a great mind to sue him in the morning myself, before Squire Doolittle, for meddling with my leaders.

It was the duty of the authorities, if they meddled with the boy at all, to have educated him well.

They have their own laws, and run through definite stages, but always menace those who meddle with them.

They had been told, often and often, not to meddle with things that did not belong to them.

Arithmetic to Dick; "little boys may get into trouble if they meddle with things that they don't understand."

As for Kate, the advice and cautions of meddling friends of course only fixed her more firmly in her preference.

Livingston conclude, that either he was not called to meddle in state matters, or else he should have little success.

And how could I tell a brother not to meddle with his sister's honor, and reputation, and happiness?

I have heard people that deal in birds affirm there is a way of preventing cats from meddling with them.

I thought this made it still more dangerous; yet the strain was so heavy that I half feared to meddle.

The next time he is asked to meddle with our cows, he will probably want to know the reason why.

I was only shaken up a little, and as soon as you meddling people let me alone, I came around all right.

They govern their states according to their own pleasure, none having any right to meddle with their affairs.

The Emperor, he said, did not wish to meddle with his laws, unless they personally affected the Queen.

To meddle with other lives is always a dangerous business, just as not to meddle may be a shameful one.

Possibly Matt may have told him the scouts were meddling with things, and his professional instincts were shocked.

I am not a policeman, and when my friends resolved to leave the camp I had no grounds to meddle.

I should have liked to look over the papers after Meadows came, but I was afraid to meddle with them.

And the knowledge and guilt of it still flushed her cheeks at intervals and meddled with her heart.

Just what they are I am unable to say, for he always says 'women have no business meddling with politics.'

And he said, "You may do what you like from this out, and I will not meddle with you again."

Every general idea is purely intellectual; if the imagination meddles with it ever so little, the idea immediately becomes particular.

I am not to be expected to know anything about it, nor can I meddle with business that is his.

The king made no answer to his requests, not hearing a reason why he should meddle in such a matter.

Winnie regarded him with a curious glint of the eyes, and felt a delight in meddling in such a matter.

"Really, I don't want to meddle with what is none of my business, but on what pretext were you discharged?"

This struck a dread amongst the people, and the mayor spoke to him; but none meddled with him.

What a world with which no one else can meddle we can carry around in our little brains and hearts!

I had earnestly persuaded them not to meddle with the egg, but they would not listen to me.

Counselor, we have heard of him often; a worthy man and a peaceful one, who meddled not with our duties.

We will not meddle with the private feelings of a young female, that chance has thrown into our hands.

By meddling in these people's lives you only create new wants in them, and new demands on their labor.

"What if we put it into the boat and take it aboard the Fortuna before we meddle with it," suggested Jack.

And, sometimes, I get to wondering if, after all, one has the right to meddle in other people's lives.

What if he goes with his tale to the police, or to that meddling doctor, that took such notice of him.

Everything of value was in the tent, however, and I don't suppose they cared to meddle with the canoes.

The price has been paid; the native has learned that it is not well to meddle with white men.

Railroad men are wise and just, and neither the people nor the Government should meddle with the railroad business.

With the hopes of the young ladies we do not meddle; why then interfere about nurse and the policeman?

"I didn't ask you to meddle with things in my bag," cried Martine, excitedly, after the manner of sisters.

It would be silly to do that; as matters stood now, his title could be denied if he sought to meddle.

"If you'll promise me not to meddle with them, I'll leave them in your keeping, only they're mine, remember."

He did not want anybody to meddle with the bottle; it was his now, or rather it was Bella's.

Foreigners should therefore be sure that they are well advised, before they meddle with them, or they may suffer.

I shall speak in just that way to anybody who comes meddling with what they have no business with.

"No," replied the man bluntly, "I am not; who has sent you here to meddle with other people's affairs?"

Indeed, for a time, he felt very little inclination to meddle with it, and thought he never should again.

Turpin probably ran greater risks in meddling with them than he encountered at any other period in his career.

The latter himself meddled a little, pointing out where inconveniences might arrive to Government from probing intelligence too nicely.

It was his strong feeling, that it was neither wise nor prudent to meddle with the Act of Toleration.

The Italians have an excessive dread of corpses, and never meddle with those of their nearest and dearest relatives.

"If there were none others, the world would get along without so much meddling on the part of others."

Shelley has little or none; less, perhaps, than any known writer who has ever meddled with moral questions.

He knew also that it was dangerous to meddle or contend with them, so he merely looked on with a suspicious eye.

Baron Rigby said, if it were so he would not meddle with the matter, but exceedingly desired to see me.

I, born with my century, was familiar with these things; but my mother forbade my meddling with them.

"Why should you meddle with the affairs of a man that is seeking to make a living for his wife?"

As they were not supposed to meddle with politics, they did not at first take definite sides in the war.

It seemed, then, as strange to meddle with the king's business as to meddle with that of a private person.

His great fault, then, lies in supposing it his duty to be meddling with things that he does not understand.

"It seems probable that I shall suffer enough for meddling with your affairs, and I will do so no more."

When they talked at the hotel, the fellow's manner was threatening, but Jim hardly thought he would meddle.

The general effect of any meddling of authority with opinion is that the mind is robbed of its genuine employment.

I dare not inform myself of their affairs, because of the prohibition of Father General for meddling in such affairs.

I often called on her, for her intrigues amused me, but I was wise enough not to meddle with them.

Barbara herself, with her sweet meddling ways, would all be ready to fetch and carry between the lovers.

For reasons that were equally good, though perhaps not so easy to define in words, none meddled with her either.

Hillbillies were independent, not at all inclined to meddle in the affairs of others or to having their own investigated.

English lords tell us that delicate matters have to be discussed there, with which women would hardly care to meddle.

A more angry bird I never saw when she discovered I had been meddling with something I knew nothing about.

"No, I should not," answered Theresa, very quickly; adding, "I don't want you to meddle at all in our affairs."

Recollect, I beg of you, that you meddled with my affairs, and that I have not concerned myself about yours.

"Because I heard the boy that I believe stole them say they were too big for him to meddle with."

I know how to deal with them; but you will get into trouble if you meddle with this fan business.

This is the right conclusion, to let all talk and other people's concerns slip by and not meddle.

"Well, well," said the old gentleman, after a little, "others have been meddling; I think I will meddle a little."

Thus, while daily disgracing the State by her own example, she still sought to meddle in its affairs.

A reckless man is my aversion, and nothing should ever persuade me to meddle with the concerns of such a one.

Duncan had a top shelf in her closet cleared for them, far above the reach of meddling little fingers.

Livingstone had detailed the whole circumstance, dwelling long upon 'Lena's meddling propensities, and charging the whole affair upon her.

You've gone and made a mess of things between you, and damned if I don't think it's my duty to meddle!

This it is which opposed my meddling in public politics; and it appears to me to have opposed me very properly.

"I see; I am to stop my meddling, and you are to continue your downtown gambling in your own house in the evenings."

I have no mind to meddle with the affairs of another man until I am sure that he needs my help.

Or, laughing at men who meddle in household affairs, she will affirm that "men do not understand some things."

I shall send you out once more, but this time you must promise me not to meddle with the trade again.

"We must show these people that he is not merely meddling with parts of the Law," remarked the scribe.

"Eat your dinners quietly, my children," returned the silent father, "and not meddle with matters you do not understand."

The essentials of this affair lay deep under the surface, beyond my reach, and beyond my power of meddling.

And whether it be true or no, I am beginning to think that I have no call to make or meddle in it.

The wild flowers do the best, to my thinking; people don't meddle with them in their stupid, clumsy way.

You know your meddling makes me as nervous as I should make you if I wanted to paint a part of your pictures.

The fear of getting hurt has the good effect of keeping passengers and others from meddling with their lamps.

Toward photography his aversion was weaker; perhaps because in that art a human being less openly meddled with him.

During his three years' sway, that general refused to make or meddle in any way with the Queen's marriage.

I must get the barrels ready,' said the mother, evidently not wishing her son to meddle in domestic matters.

This matter should be kept constantly in view, and specialists in one branch should not meddle with other branches.

The Admiral gave orders for the Union Jack to be placed on shore, to see if anyone would meddle with it.

They did not, however, venture to attack us, nor were we yet in a condition to meddle further with them.