intermeddle
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Is a statute less objection able which authorizes expenditure of Fed eral moneys to induce action in a field in which the United States has no power to intermeddle?
From Time Magazine Archive
"I have considered it as a matter between every man and his Maker, in which no other, and far less the public, had a right to intermeddle."
From Time Magazine Archive
Peter was prone to intermeddle with matters beyond his sphere, and to manage other people’s affairs for them.
From The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St John, Vol. II by Marcus Dods
Intercede and interpose are used in a good sense; intermeddle always in a bad sense, and interfere frequently so.
From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by James Champlin Fernald
No one, however intimate, could really intermeddle with the workings of a genius drawing its happiest inspiration from the earliest experiences of its own individual past.
From Mathilde Blind by George Eliot
It was a joy too sacred to be intermeddled with.
From Faith Gartney's Girlhood by A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) Whitney
And it was told the king, but he intermeddled not with her.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None by Various (magazine) Harper
Thus, the man who intermeddled irregularly with the moveables of a person deceased, was subjected to all the debts of the deceased, without limitation.
From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces by Samuel Johnson
“You are wrong, Captain Uraga,” interposed he who had intermeddled, addressing himself to the officer.
From The Lone Ranche by Mayne Reid
Thus, the man who intermeddled irregularly with the moveables of a person deceased, was subjected to all the debts of the deceased without limitation.
From Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776 by George Birkbeck Norman Hill
Such an arrangement would provide protection for the universities and athletes from intermeddling by third parties, particularly boosters and agents.
From Slate ● Mar. 31, 2014
Sometimes the Doctrine is shrunk to mean little more than that the U. S. will attempt to discourage European intermeddling in Latin America.
From Time Magazine Archive
Protesting in her behalf, Wolvovitz's co-counsel Jon Pushinsky found himself held in contempt and handed a 30-day suspended sentence for "officious intermeddling."
From Time Magazine Archive
Suppose he should prove to be a man of low tastes, of vulgar and spendthrift habits, a maladroit and intermeddling king?
From Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by Justin McCarthy
Maintenance is an officious intermeddling in a suit that no way belongs to one, by 'maintaining' or assisting either party with money, or otherwise, to prosecute or defend it....
From Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. by Samuel Warren
