How to Use meddlesome in a Sentence

meddlesome

adjective
  • Her neighbors saw her as a meddlesome nuisance.
  • Who will rid me of this meddlesome priest?’ And then the next day he was killed.
    James Hohmann, Washington Post, 9 June 2017
  • At the very least, doing so will alert the coach to think about how to deal with meddlesome parents.
    USA TODAY, 6 Jan. 2024
  • The father doesn’t know enough to be an meddlesome swim parent.
    David Woods, The Indianapolis Star, 25 Apr. 2022
  • So we’re spared the sort of meddlesome-U.S.-government boilerplate plot that weighed down a movie like Arrival.
    Vulture, 20 July 2022
  • But life, in this case a devious grandfather and a meddlesome mother, gets in the way of their true love.
    Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 28 Sep. 2022
  • There are ways this gift can go very wrong: if the graduate doesn’t buy in, or if the adult doing the giving becomes too meddlesome.
    New York Times, 9 July 2021
  • Most of these attacks are meant to be part of espionage campaigns or to be meddlesome rather than deadly.
    Zachary B. Wolf, CNN, 22 Mar. 2022
  • Across the country, patients dealing with the meddlesome condition are now turning to Botox—yes, Botox.
    Ali Francis, The Atlantic, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Many suspect that the group, which seems to have petrol, weapons and ammunition in abundance, is backed by one of Congo’s meddlesome neighbours.
    The Economist, 13 July 2019
  • The camera watches, weaves, and waits—not so much sticking its nose in, like a meddlesome guest, as making sure that people are attended to, if only with a glance.
    Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2024
  • The proud but meddlesome mother of three women tries to find the perfect man for her youngest daughter by placing an online personal ad.
    Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2019
  • The proud but meddlesome mother of three women tries to find the perfect man for her youngest daughter by placing an online personal ad.
    Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2019
  • The proud but meddlesome mother of three women tries to find the perfect man for her youngest daughter by placing an online personal ad.
    Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2019
  • The proud but meddlesome mother of three women tries to find the perfect man for her youngest daughter by placing an online personal ad.
    Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2019
  • The proud but meddlesome mother of three women tries to find the perfect man for her youngest daughter by placing an online personal ad.
    Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2019
  • But make sure that person doesn’t cross the line between useful feedback and meddlesome revision, or worse.
    Nick Anderson, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2017
  • Pyongyang has ignored his calls for dialogue and chastised him for being meddlesome in his attempts to serve as a bridge between Kim Jong Un and Trump.
    Fortune, 16 June 2020
  • LaVar is a constant pain, far more meddlesome and influential.
    George Diaz, OrlandoSentinel.com, 21 May 2017
  • Iago is downright meddlesome, aiding Jafar in his machinations to steal the genie's lamp.
    Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 13 Apr. 2022
  • But for more than six decades, humanity has fought back against meddlesome bugs with radiation.
    Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 2 Dec. 2017
  • The Taliban face the poverty, internal strife, illicit crops, meddlesome neighbors, and threat of insurrections that are endemic to their country—and have proved the bane of all its rulers.
    Carter Malkasian, Foreign Affairs, 23 Aug. 2021
  • Moon has become particularly close with Bean, who plays her mother, and who has put a lot of thought into how best to be helpful without being meddlesome.
    Michael Paulson, New York Times, 8 May 2024
  • So, too, is your fear that answering an invitation to lunch will be considered meddlesome.
    Miss Manners | Judith Martin, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Mar. 2023
  • So, too, is your fear that answering an invitation to lunch will be considered meddlesome.
    Nicholas Ivor Martin and Jacobina Martin, oregonlive, 23 Mar. 2023
  • All three ladies sided with Romano’s Emmy winner — which just so happens to be a sitcom about meddlesome family members!
    Yvonne Juris, PEOPLE.com, 18 Aug. 2017
  • Beijing has characterized the spontaneous protests as the work of meddlesome foreign countries.
    Washington Post, 6 July 2021
  • Beijing has characterized the spontaneous protests as the work of meddlesome foreign countries.
    Washington Post, 6 July 2021
  • Beijing has characterized the spontaneous protests as the work of meddlesome foreign countries.
    Washington Post, 6 July 2021
  • Beijing has characterized the spontaneous protests as the work of meddlesome foreign countries.
    Washington Post, 6 July 2021

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