Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who meddles; one who interferes or busies himself with things in which he has no personal or proper concern; an officious person; a busybody.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who meddles; one who interferes or busies himself with things in which he has no concern; an officious person; a busybody.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
meddles orinterferes in something not of their concern.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an officious annoying person who interferes with others
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Examples
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So a process that involves such meddling by a competent meddler is conceivable but I do not believe that natural forces alone would generate cells on a lifeless planet.
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So a process that involves such meddling by a competent meddler is conceivable but I do not believe that natural forces alone would generate cells on a lifeless planet.
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Like Scrappy-Doo and Jar Jar Binks before him, this annoying elfin meddler deserves the slow, horrible death owed to such characters everywhere.
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Like Scrappy-Doo and Jar Jar Binks before him, this annoying elfin meddler deserves the slow, horrible death owed to such characters everywhere.
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This radical bitch — the difficult meddler from the beginning — just called me and tried to speak for the whole gallery.
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This radical bitch — the difficult meddler from the beginning — just called me and tried to speak for the whole gallery.
just when I was about to have female friends again . . . « Magic Lantern Arts 2003
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I was ridiculed and my work was called "meddler" "crazy," was pointed at as a fanatic.
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Christopher Jefferies was an eccentric 'meddler', say former tenants
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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The İstanbul 2nd Criminal Court of Peace sentenced Ilıcak to a suspended prison sentence of 11 months, 20 days because of remarks in her column on Kaçmaz, whom she called an "işgüzar," which means "meddler," after he made a controversial ruling against the president.
TODAY'S ZAMAN :: News ŞULE KULU 2010
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The İstanbul 2nd Criminal Court of Peace sentenced Ilıcak to a suspended prison sentence of 11 months, 20 days because of remarks in her column on Kaçmaz, whom she called an "işgüzar," which means "meddler," after he made a controversial ruling against the president.
TODAY'S ZAMAN :: News ŞULE KULU 2010
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