meddling
- adjective
- /ˈmɛd.lɪŋ/
- I find his meddling in my personal affairs very intrusive.
When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself the people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly.
- When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself the people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly.
- Drone aid the bad sushi and fell out of sky window like meddling journalists.
Examples
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And I would have been president too if it wasn't for you meddling voters.
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When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself the people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly.
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Drone aid the bad sushi and fell out of sky window like meddling journalists.
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Her meddling caused unnecessary tension among the team members.
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We wish he would stop his meddling and mind his own business.
Synonyms
Showing too much interest in other people's affairs
Tending to get involved in other people's business and annoy them
Too ready to give help or advice when people do not want it
A person who tries to find out or change other people's private lives
A person who tries to control other people's lives
Antonyms
How Interfering
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Meddling comes from an old French verb mesler meaning 'to mix'. A helpful image is a person who 'mixes into' things that are not their business, so a meddling person is someone who interferes where they should not.