meddling
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5.0
- adjective
- /ˈmɛd.lɪŋ/
- I find his meddling in my personal affairs very intrusive.
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Watch on YouTubeWhen 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
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7.2
Tending to get involved in other people's business and annoy them
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8.6
Too ready to give help or advice when people do not want it
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5.7
A person who tries to control other people's lives
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7.5
Showing too much interest in other people's affairs
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8.4
A person who tries to find out or change other people's private 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.