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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:

We saw that there could be no meddling without marring.

"Meddling with the railroads is a dangerous pastime," said Johnnie.

They meddle with our windlass and trespass on our premises.

Would you like any meddling in your little affairs of gallantry?

We in these parts are not friendly to any European meddling.

It's ill meddling between the bark and the rind.

And you, grandchild, see you meddle not in your father's affairs.

What makes that scented dandy meddle with such matters?

You are come of weavers' stock and weavers tend to meddling.

You seem to have inherited your poor mother's pesky habit of meddling.

I will destroy without compunction anyone who meddles with them.

He was a sedentary person and loved meddling with figures.

"What 'nation call ha' you got to meddle, cuss you!"

How much harm had our meddling hurled upon that man!

Some meddling person has sent these notes to annoy me.

Why should anybody have the impertinence to meddle with him?

Children are never allowed to meddle with its smallest twig.

Who the deuce's business is it to meddle in my affairs?

I would meddle no more, since I find all so unkind.

Meddling with matters which do not matter to you, is prying.

If they have a heretic to deal with we must not meddle.

Later fancy has meddled with the truth of the saga.

"Don't meddle with this African wasp's nest," he warned him.

The damned meddling upstart, with his plays and fine women!

If meddled with, they seemed as if agitated by a galvanic battery.

Now you are quite defenseless, and at my mercy, you meddling ape.

Of course, it is officious and presumptuous and disagreeable of me to meddle.

English glory is too genteel to meddle with those humble fellows.

He and she alone, away from all that gaping, meddling throng.

However, all those of her meddling in Politics are perfectly unfounded.

The priests say the Seers are above meddling in human affairs.

It would serve me right for meddling in this parson business.

And now mark one of the multitudinous evils of legislative meddling.

Ralph had the good sense not to meddle in their dissensions.

In his heart he cursed Foster for a meddling, cantankerous fanatic.

His wife is sure to be meddling in the affairs of the diocese.

She said scornfully; "you are over young to meddle with such like."

It is unseemly for a girl to meddle in her father's affairs.

Hang the woman, and twenty times hang those meddling youngsters!

"You don't mean to say that I was meddling with your pocketbook?"

He said viciously; "I wish I had never meddled in this business."

I am in no mind to meddle with churches for the nonce.

Hang the fellow for his unwarranted meddling and plausible tongue!

Tithes and meddling sent my father out of it a poor man.

No, United States tankers were not to be meddled with, he decided.

Neither slugs nor any other pests seem to meddle with it.

I will not meddle with the wasps' nest of the priests.

"It is always dangerous business meddling with lovers' affairs," rejoined Richard.

Meddle with your Musketeers, and do not annoy me in this way.

You may trace it to the interference of meddling, and unprincipled men.

I don't meddle with fermented liquors of any kind, even as medicine.

Peter, and that it would be consequently impious to meddle with it.

With the mysteries of woman's clothes I do not presume to meddle.

I had in vain entreated them not to meddle with the egg.

It is dangerous for laymen to meddle with questions of technical theology.

"Of course, though, you had to meddle," I would scold at her.

Not even the most painstaking statistician has meddled with the topic.

Or perhaps they judged it unwise to meddle with a party like ours.

If you meddled in my affairs, the chickens might come home to roost.

Beaver was interfering and meddling with other than his parochial duties.

And somehow when Father spanked it always seemed as if he were meddling.

Meddle with oaths with the greatest fear, and caution, and circumspection.

Neither to jeer at you, nor to meddle with you, Alison, but friendly.

Ejaculated the village matron, her courage and her mind to meddle returning.

Here, you young rascal, I'll teach you to meddle with my tools!

You've been a nuisance in the house from the first with your officious meddling!

Who knows but that there may be some meddling spy prowling about?

One does not court refusals; but you know his meddling, ferreting ways.

I am not so impertinent, at all events, though I do like to meddle.

He first alluded to the meddling of the Court with the elections.

It is ever thus, when gentle, god-fearing dreamers meddle with worldly affairs.

In one sense, it may seem to you like an impertinent meddling in your business.

It irritated me that the furniture of my room should be meddled with.

He could endure her French people and their meddling no longer, he said.

The English had always a special gusto for this meddling rescue work.

I can handle a sword, but I have no business to meddle in statecraft.

I meddle with no tradesman's matters, nor women's matters, but with all.

Nor are we about to meddle very deeply in the affairs of the diocese.

I meddle not with gown or lawn; I, therefore, have no need to fawn.

Could it be possible that this impudent stranger contemplated meddling with him?

With political matters he meddled not, repelled alike by inclination and prudence.

"I might help you into a worse heartache by my meddling," Susan suggested.

Ah, better be a poor fisherman than meddle with the governing of men!'

You cannot meddle with a mob of lambing ewes without doing them mischief.

If the government is meddling, there will be constant infraction of the law.

Should we be imprudent enough to meddle with it, we might rightfully be blamed.

It seemed as if sickness itself was loath to meddle with aught so lovely.

As an American, you would scarcely expect me to meddle with your private affairs.

Don't think me presumptuous; that I am trying to meddle, interfere in your life.

"You mustn't meddle with it," said the man in the same reedy, oboe voice.

Apply to a lawyer, for I never care to meddle in these matrimonial squabbles.

The tithing system has failed whenever meddled with by the secular power.

I'd as soon meddle with a tiger as her, if she's rampaging about Chester.

It mixes and meddles, but in the ultimate soul bigness it does not count.

He covets his neighbor's business, and his own is to meddle, not do.

"It is ill meddling with strange men's weapons, most of all an outlaw's."

Such annoying and insolent meddling on the part of governments no longer exists.

You have been tampering, I find, with things wherein you have no right to meddle.

This unpleasant feeling was deepened by the malicious meddling of another false confederate.

I never harmed the brigands, and they dare not to meddle with me.