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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:

He wished that he could give Reuben warning to keep out of the way of the meddling villagers, lest he also should be captured.

And in their meddling and making, their baiting and mating, they are as serviceable as the Column Personal of an American newspaper.

I hate and denounce all attempts, even by the most friendly foreign power, to meddle with the internal affairs of our country.

Forcible reasons why the respectable person should not meddle with it, at least, until the greatest reforms have taken place.

It is well to learn some artful sailor's-knot for tying up bags, with which other people cannot meddle without your finding it out.

Far from meddling with the government, they abdicate, and as they refuse to elect it, they cannot undertake to control it.

Henrietta had brought over with her a meddling French household which, after repeated grievances, his Majesty was obliged to send "packing."

This should be a caution never to meddle with a sleeping dog in a way-side house, and, indeed, never to disturb him anywhere.

It has warned religion that there are certain things it must not meddle with, certain departments on which it must not encroach.

In this way I continued to use up a large amount of material, which looked as if it were as dangerous as dynamite to meddle with.

The plain people, though they did not meddle in public deliberations, guessed at once that that train was an omen of treason.

She made her obedient spouse recount to her the smallest details of the sessions of the Council, meddling with and criticizing all.

Princess Mary sensibly refrained from meddling, and while all these schemes were being carried on, the whole truth was discovered.

Other people do not care to meddle with him, and the most daring robber would be afraid to touch infected money or clothes.

This rather softened his feelings towards her; but he still felt extremely provoked with the meddling Adeline, and her officious brother.

He therefore does not relish having his style meddled with, even for such a technicality as the filling out of a short line.

"You should not have irritated him," replied Althea, with mild rebuke: "Why do you meddle with him, if he does not please you?"

Men of such character are not inclined to meddle, and a strong positive evidence is necessary to substantiate any such charge against them.

The Oriental would be just as puzzled to understand the English craze for meddling, but he may one day undergo a rueful enlightenment.

The same was the case with fondness for female beauty, if care was taken not to meddle with the sacred ties of matrimony.

Jupiter, indignant that a mortal man should return from the gates of death, thrust down the meddling leech himself to Hades.

This truth should have its greatest value in dissuading a nation from meddling with the internal affairs of another, even from good motives.

This judicious plan, rapidly conceived and partly executed, might fail through some trick of chance which meddles with all things here below.

Now he sees his mother as she is; a wrinkled old woman, perverse, unreasonable, and inclined to meddle with his domestic affairs.

Myles deposed, in 1592, that henceforth Burbage "would not suffer her to meddle in the premises, but thrust her out of all."

If we had, however, meddled with peninsular affairs too long, we would not have been able to turn our attention exclusively to inner affairs.

Not considering, poor man, that the contrary is most true: not many good days since ministers meddled so much in laymen's business.

In spiritual matters, he is guided by his curate, who, if he wishes to stand well with him, must meddle with nothing else.

It appeared, however, on the trial of Father Reynolds, that Fisher's imprudence or zeal had tempted him again to meddle with dangerous matters.

She was an inquisitive little being, eager to meddle with everything; and a miracle it was that the firewood did not fall down.

The professed object of this meddling on the part of the great republic, was to give to other states the benefit of freedom.

Having, I suppose, been too frequently meddled with, this old mother cat lugged off her kittens one by one to a dark cupboard.

He received his good sister's entreaties for counsel, therefore, with reproof, and a stern admonition not to meddle with affairs beyond her knowledge.

Thus, the thoughtless young men, meddling themselves in a matter that did not concern them, determined upon a very questionable piece of folly.

You can do great harm by meddling with it, and not uncommonly it is made very much worse by caustic or poisonous applications.

He's an ill-tempered, close-fisted, interfering cad, and if he meddles with my affairs again, I shall tell him what I think of him.

He said he was a specimen of the unpleasant type of Scot who meddled and denounced to attract attention and make himself of consequence.

Now perhaps you will think me a meddling intruder: anyhow, it is the advice of an old hackneyed writer who sincerely wishes you well.

The boys fly; but after them come the avengers, and they are taught by painful experience the danger of meddling with gunpowder.

"Well then," said the king, "I shall commute his punishment, and interdict him from meddling with stone or mortar for a twelve-month."

Those annoying little red seals that the government places on the doors of all arrested persons are terribly dangerous to meddle with.

You are to understand distinctly, if you please, that I maintain my protest against this impious attempt to meddle with my afflicted daughter's sight.

With the fear of the white man before their eyes they do not seek to meddle with the Europeans in their factories and bungalows.

He is said to be an abolitionist, and a very dangerous man, meddling with the affairs of the Cherokees, and teaching them abolition principles.

And so, thanks to all this meddling and muddling, the miserable affair ended in a complete estrangement between my daughter and me.

Above all things we ought to relieve ourselves from the curse of being perpetually exposed to the meddling and muddling of our native policy.

Meddle no further in this case; 'twill be the more credit for your observation, for I find by my experience you are but shallow.

No, they had better settle that among themselves: he was not the man to meddle in tiresome things that didn't concern him.

Lastly, that as we have undertaken not to meddle with her faith, or to oppress her into changing it, so must you undertake also.

Lacy perished of pneumonia the following winter, they both may be permitted to quit this chronicle to be meddled with by us no further.

She was aware that she was meddling with things which were foreign to her nature, and which would be odious to her husband.

They did so: the ministers were discharged, with an intimation to confine themselves to their pulpits, and not to meddle with the cloisters.

He was a queer, cranky fellow, and it appears that he was given to drawing horoscopes and meddling with secret and hidden things.

Those of the new religion were to take oaths of obedience to the authorities, and to abstain from meddling with the secular administration of affairs.

The mistress of the house should dust these herself if the master is touchy, or objects to other hands meddling with his belongings.

If he had known just what his nephew was about, he would have interposed to prevent him from meddling with such dangerous characters.

What did this nobody mean in meddling with so weighty a subject as that before them, and which they had already fully debated?

Thole would have felt no sympathy, and have put the case aside for a while, muttering some abuse of missionaries as weak, meddling, mischievous men.

If the former, he should be reprimanded for meddling with matters he knew nothing about; if the latter, the law would punish him.

A tumor should be admirably placed for operation, and its removal should be almost imperative, before the surgeon presumes to meddle with it.

The Parliaments would be re-established, but only as judicial tribunals, which should have no pretense to meddle with the affairs of administration or finance.

I never saw anything that needed a rebuke, or exhortation, or warning, but that I felt it was my place to meddle with it.

When he reached home, he stood the bag up in one corner, as if it held turnips, and said, "Don't meddle with that, children."

It's no place of mine, however, to see the larder, and I am not a going to get myself mobbed, meddling with other servants.

I could have captured that gunboat on two separate occasions, had I desired it, and made a bonfire of her for her confounded meddling.

It has been everywhere darkened by cross purposes, and by the unauthorized meddling of generations, which had ceased to sympathize with the heroic age.

No safeguard can in the nature of things be provided against this improper meddling, except a strong and general conviction of its injurious character.

In no way should the North meddle with the slavery question, on penalty of secession; and the sooner this was understood the better.

Then spare your breath and do your worst; only careful, sharp as you think yourself, that your meddling does not recoil on your own head.

"Should his successor like himself, be a minor, his executors, unlike his father's, should meddle with no wars unless the country was invaded."

This proposition's too big and complicated for a beginner to meddle with; you'd only involve yourself and everybody concerned in a deplorable mess.

Claiming, as probate judge, that he had the right to supervise contracts between them and their employers, he constantly meddled in private affairs.

You dare not meddle with the outer skin which you can see, and yet you presume to attack my internal maladies which you can't see?

They say it was the most ridiculous thing in the world to see the eagerness with which women meddled with the Queen-mother's regency.

Its surface was covered with a loose, granular crust, dry and utterly incoherent, which slipped away in streaks directly it was meddled with.

Such was the pious vengeance which the Moors brought upon themselves by meddling with the kine of the stout prior of the hospital.

The writer wishes he could offer himself as an awful example of the perils which environ a man who meddles with cold type.

From the point of view of the colonial capitalists, the cumbersome royal bureaucracy was always involved in troublesome meddling which impeded their progress.

Meddling with the conscience of another person is a delicate and difficult affair, and Ruth had already warned Ethel of its certain futility.

And yet it is remarkable that of so many who meddle with the combustible passions of their own minds so few are blown up.

They ordered them too to sing mean songs, and to dance ridiculous dances, but not to meddle with any that were genteel and graceful.

Pry (Paul), one of those idle, meddling fellows, who, having no employment of their own, are perpetually interfering in the affairs of other people.

These, of course, are supplemented by geographical, biographical, bibliographical, and other dictionaries, including of course lexicons to all the languages I ever meddle with.

Every power should be very careful not to give the least pretense to a neighboring power to meddle with the affairs of its interior.

The Hussars, merry as schoolboys on a holiday, came tumbling one over the other into the rooms, meddled with everything, poked their noses everywhere.

They ordered them, too, to sing mean songs, and to dance ridiculous dances, but not to meddle with any that were genteel and graceful.

A man set upon the Mammoth caught fast in the mire and would have destroyed him, had it not been for the meddling Rhinoceros.

I have found several dens, but did not molest them as this is a particularly dangerous time of the year to meddle with the reptiles.

Not that there is any fear of loss, for who will meddle with a priest who carries credentials signed by his Holiness himself.

In all our concerns it will be their beloved duty to meddle, with what tact, with what obliging words, analogy will aid us to imagine.

They were very inquisitive animals and liked to meddle in the affairs of other people, and they caused a lot of trouble in the world.

Nothing else was meddled with though there was property enough in the shed to have tempted people more honest than they ever professed to be.

That displeased him greatly, for he did not like being kissed, and did not like people meddling with him without asking his permission.

The line of conduct, however painful to myself, which I have adopted, is the only effectual method to prevent the remarks of a meddling world.

The arguments by which this notion is supported, are too complicated, and too contemptuous of unity or consistency, to be meddled with in our limited space.

While they bore themselves peaceably, and quietly they were ever ready to assert their rights, and people thought twice before they meddled with them.

The foreign origin of the royal family helped to form its wholesome timidity about meddling with politics, allowing thus a development of ministerial government.

However, there was no more meddling; the brilliant blossoms were allowed to adorn the place and Esther's life as long as they would, or could.

Wherefore it is better to be a guest of the law, which though conducted by rules, does not meddle unduly with a gentleman's private affairs.

Besides, he was an official in the employ of a foreign country, and it would be the height of indiscretion to meddle, even in a private capacity.